TriMet operates MAX test train over Tilikum Crossing

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
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For the first time, Oregon's TriMet operated an electrified MAX test train on the northern segment of the new Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project alignment, including Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, on Wed., Jan. 21. A powered Portland Streetcar train also traveled across the bridge during the systems test.

 

TriMet said the successful test along the future MAX Orange Line verified the interface with the track, the overhead catenary system that supplies power to the vehicles and signals. The first test trains traveled at walking speed.

The 7.3-mile project is the region’s sixth MAX construction project and will improve transit in this corridor that extends from the terminus of the MAX Green and Yellow lines at Portland State University in Downtown Portland to South Waterfront, SE Portland, Milwaukie and North Clackamas County. The line with have 10 stations and a multi-modal bridge that will carry light rail and streetcar trains, buses, bicyclists and pedestirans. The project expands the MAX system to 60 miles and 97 stations.

 

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