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Expo Center
MAX Light Rail station
General information
Location	2060 North Marine Drive at Portland Expo Center Portland, Oregon USA
Coordinates	45°36′20″N 122°41′08″W / 45.60556°N 122.68556°W / 45.60556; -122.68556
Owned by	TriMet
Platforms	1 side and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Parking	300 total spaces
Bicycle facilities	Lockers
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	May 1, 2004
Services
Preceding station TriMet Following station Delta Park/​Vanporttowards Union Station/​Northwest 5th & Glisan Yellow Line Terminus
Location

Expo Center 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. The 300 park-and-ride spaces are free for commuters arriving before 10 am on weekdays for a maximum 24 hours. At all other times, drivers must pay the Expo Center's usual $7–8 parking fee.

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 Civilian Assembly Center that existed here during the early days of World War II, which processed Japanese-Americans upon the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.

Bus line connections

This station is at the Expo Center served by the following bus line:

• 11 - Rivergate/Marine Dr

Unique station features

The station includes several unique decorative features relating to the internment camp theme:

• 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. Facsimiles of historical newspaper headlines are 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.

References

1. Chuang, Angie (September 11, 2003). "Embracing the future, remembering the past: TriMet dedicates the Expo Center MAX Station, once a temporary WW II internment camp". The Oregonian.
2. "Art on Interstate MAX Yellow Line". TriMet. Retrieved 2009-11-27.

External links

• Station information from TriMet
• MAX Light Rail Stations – more general TriMet page
• Park and Ride Locations – general TriMet page

• 2004 establishments in Oregon
• Kenton, Portland, Oregon
• MAX Light Rail stations
• MAX Yellow Line
• Railway stations in Portland, Oregon
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 2004