Portland > MAX Light Rail > Yellow Line

Expo
Center

Year Opened 2004 # of Tracks 3
Platform Layout One island platform, one side platform
Park-n-Ride Yes Transit Center No
City Portland Right of Way Expo Center
Points of Interest Portland Expo Center

This is my favorite station on the Yellow Line. The art motif is a memorial to all the Japanese who were forced to register for interment at this location in 1942. The current north building at the Expo Center was converted to a cattle expo to a human city by merely laying boards over the dirt and putting up partitions for families. They lived here until permanent camps were established in California and other desert location.

The Station has Japanese Tori, or shrine gates, with metal tags. The tag have the names of each person who was registers. The tags are similar to the number tags each Japanese was given when they arrived. On the station platform is a luggage chest and a small child's chest.

This station is currently the end of the line.

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 12/23/2016 pdx-lr-expo-050104-01.jpg (158581 bytes)Japanese Tori, or Gates, a memorial for the Japanese who were sent to the Expo Center for internment registration in 1942. (5/1/04)
pdx-lr-expo-050104-05.jpg (119591 bytes)Type-1 train leaving Expo Center. (5/1/04) pdx-lr-expo-050104-12.jpg (95151 bytes)Crowds flood off the train during opening day (5/1/04)
pdx-lr-expo-050104-15.jpg (89790 bytes)Station art again for the Japanese internment camp. (5/1/04) pdx-lr-expo-041304-05.jpg (102320 bytes)Train on layover after an OERHS inspection trip on the line prior to opening (4/13/04)

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