Portland > MAX Light Rail > Blue Line/Red Line

Sunset
(TC)


Year Opened 1998 # of Tracks 2
Platform Layout 2 side Platforms
Park-n-Ride Yes Transit Center Yes
City Beaverton Right of Way Private, Open Cut
Point of Interest Sunset Transit Center, Hospital

This is a very important hub for the Westside line. Many bus lines converge here as well as a parking deck for cars. It is also a junction on two important traffic clogged freeways: US-26 and OR-217. It is an engineering marvel: On OR-217 the line heads north. Then comes the entrance to Sunset Transit Center. The line first turns west along US-26 then goes underneath the highway completing an 180 degree turn to head back east entering the station. After the station the line continues east at high speed to enter the tunnel.

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7/6/2023 2/22/2020
2/2/2020 4/9/2019
4/9/2019 1/27/2019
7/1/2015 Station (7/1/15)
Train arriving (7/1/15) Outbound train (7/1/15)
Evening Shot of a Hillsboro train. (1/28/09) Rush hour Yellow Line put-in to Expo Center (1/28/09)
Blue line to Gresham entering (1/28/09) Gresham bound train. (1/24/06)
Yes, this is Expo Center bound YELLOW line train entering Sunset TC. Two evening rush hour trips a day pull in from Elmonica yards and run in service towards downtown. (1/24/06) Hillsboro bound train is entering the tunnel underneath the parking garage and highway 26. (1/24/06)
pdx-lr-sunset-050104-08.jpg (101480 bytes)A view of the only "Cut-Out" station on the MAX system (5/1/04) pdx-lr-sunset-050104-05.jpg (103151 bytes)Eastbound train boarding passengers (5/1/04)
pdx-lr-sunset-060502-03.jpg (489011 bytes)Train crossing the US-26/OR-217 interchange by Sunset Transit Center. (6/5/02) pdx-lr-sunset-050104-01.jpg (77694 bytes)Westbound train is seen entering the station after a short tunnel under the freeway interchange. (5/01/04)
pdx-lr-sunset-060502-01.jpg (624200 bytes)Beaverton bound train curving out of Sunset Transit Center along US-26/OR-217 interchange. (6/5/02) pdx-lr03.jpg (52323 bytes)This train is at Sunset Transit Center which is in an open cut. Soon this train will enter a tunnel which will take the train 180 degrees under US26 before turning 90 degrees to the south along OR-217. (10/98)

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