Expo Center (MAX station)

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Expo Center

Two single Type II trains at the Yellow Line Terminus

Station statistics

Address

SW 18th & Salmon

Lines

MAX Light Rail

Yellow Line

Platforms

Side platform and island platform

Tracks

Parking

300 total spaces

Bicycle facilities

Lockers available

Other information

Opened

May 1, 2004

Accessible

Owned by

Trimet

Fare zone

The Expo Center station is a light rail station on the MAX Yellow Line in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is the last stop northbound on the Interstate MAX extension.

This station is a large park and ride station located on the grounds of the Portland Expo Center. It is set up as a modified side platform station, with the two platforms serving three tracks. The extra track allows the storage of an overflow train for events at the Expo Center.

Although tracks and electrification end directly inside the station, it is designed to allow a future northbound extension (to Vancouver, Washington) to be easily constructed.

Both the landscaping and the artwork at the station are themed in a Japanese style. This recalls the temporary Japanese internment camp that existed here during the early days of World War II.

1 Bus line connections
2 Unique station features
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Bus line connections

This station is served by the following bus line:

16–Front Ave/St Johns

[edit] Unique station features

The station includes several unique decorative features relating to the internment camp theme:^[1]

Timber Gateway: Traditional Japanese Gates, with steel internment tags strung among them
Bronze Trunks: Provide additional seating.
Bamboo Glass Blocks
Plaque: A plaque showing the prohibited area as defined in Exclusion Order #26 for those of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien.

Timber gateway and a waiting train. Newspaper reprints are visible at the base of the wooden poles.	Timber gateway strung with replica steel internment tags.	Example of etchings on timbers.	Close-up of bamboo glass blocks on systems building.
Bronze trunk seating. Inset shows tiled box from the other trunk.	A plaque of the exclusion order #26, showing the prohibited area.