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Trolley at Americana at Brand, Glendale, CA (ani.social)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/trams_trolleys_streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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More photos and videos: https://www.daytodayla.com/2019/09/13/trolley-at-the-americana-glendale/

https://www.instagram.com/americanabrand/reel/CzZnfXdRJuW/

Manufacturer's website: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/glendale_trolleys.html

Two open-style trolley cars, #1717 and GiGi, are in Glendale, California. They were completed and delivered in 2008, and are being used at a shopping and residential center.

They are a similar style to the J.G. Brill open-style cars currently in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Tampa, Florida. The first car, #1717, is 33 feet long and battery-powered, and the unpowered second car, GiGi, is 22 feet long and pulled behind the first car. The grand opening for the "Americana At Brand" project was May 1-2, 2008.

Construction photos: https://www.gomacotrolley.com/Resources/pages/construction_glendale.html

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[–] falk1856@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Awesome! Looks like it just rolled out of the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

If you read the trolley's brochure on the manufacturer's website, it says it was designed by George McGinnis, the last of the Imagineers hired by Walt Disney.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This was most favourite (only favorite) location within LA California. Its a shame this is only a outdoor shopping center and the tram is only used as an attraction/ride. Everything else I saw outside this location was too car centric and repetitive in layout and design.

This entire one block community is a high density, car free community with shopping, restaurants, entertainment and transit. Its a perfect example of what the rest of LA and north America should strive to be. Excellent use of space and planning.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

My favorite place in LA back when I lived there in the 90s was Broadway in downtown.

It was an older downtown made for walking, with gallery arcades of immigrant mom-and-pop shops, and Clifton's Brookdale cafeteria (now some kind of nightclub).