Trolley Parks Still Existing

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:58 pm

wesp wrote:

Glen Echo Park, the trolley park in the Maryland suburbs operates the original Dentzel carrousel and now serves as a center for arts.

http://www.glenechopark.org/visitor.htm

I almost posted Glen Echo this morning, but the history on its own website says:

Quote:

Glen Echo Park began in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly, teaching the sciences, arts, languages and literature.

What we know as Glen Echo today owes way more to the trolleys than the Chautauqua, but it does technically predate the trolleys.

RSwinnerton · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Lakemont Park in Altoona, PA. Altoona's trolleys had a loop around the park.

ted_roy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:36 am

The Connecticut Trolley Museum is built on the Hartford-Springfield Street Railway's branch that included a trolley park: Piney Ridge. It is only about 1200' from the end of the current extent of the museums tracked RoW. While not "existing", the site is still on the RoW and is accessible.

Ted.

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:10 pm

The Plainfield, Joliet, & Eastern interurban line built "Electric Park" on the banks of the DuPage River just west of downtown Plaintifeld, IL. The park still exists today, as a city park, but devoid of the attractions it had in Interurban days. Friends of mine literally live next to the property, and it is well maintained, and near a historic EJ&E depot maintained by the local historical society.