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US Transit > PNW > Portland > MAX Light Rail > Red Line

Parkrose / Sumner 
(TC)

 

Year Opened 2001 # of Tracks 2
Platform Layout 1 Center Platform
Park-n-Ride No Transit Center Yes
City Parkrose Right of Way I-205
Points of Interest  

The right-of-way between Gateway and Parkrose was built when I-205 was built in the 1980's as part of a potential future transit line. The pedestrian bridge over I-205 to connect to the station is meant to look like a salmon swimming upstream.

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pdx-lr-gateway-082202-04.jpg (520136 bytes)PDX bound train crossing under NB I-205 to get into the median of the freeway south of Sumner TC (8/22/02) pdx-lr-gateway-082202-03.jpg (553617 bytes)Entering single track territory of the airport line next to I-205 just north of Gateway TC. (8/22/02)
pdx-lr-gateway-082202-07.jpg (573832 bytes)Train running in the median of I-205 just south of Sumner TC. (8/22/02) pdx-lr-parkrose-012104-02.jpg (613765 bytes)View looking south. (1/21/04)
pdx-lr-parkrose-012104-03.jpg (578938 bytes)Airport bound train. Typically Red line trains are just one car. (1/21/04) pdx-lr-parkrose-012104-05.jpg (728750 bytes)The Salmon bridge over I-205 (1/21/04)
Train on the Flyover I-205 heading towards Parkrose station. (5/12/09)  

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