THE GS TRAM SITE

PORTLAND

OREGON, UNITED STATES

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12 Sept. 2009


Portland streetcar Portland LRT Portland LRT

Portland tram map

INSET: DOWNTOWN PORTLAND

Portland 2009 downtown tram map



I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).

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ROUTES

Operator: TriMet (Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon)

LIGHT RAIL ROUTES

B Blue Line Hillsboro – Beaverton – Sunset – Washington Park – PGE Park – Library / SW 9th – Pioneer Square – SW 1st Ave. – Steel Bridge – NE Holladay Street – Hollywood & 42nd TC – Gateway – E Burnside Street – Gresham
G Green Line Portland State University (PSU) – 6th Ave. [back: 5th Ave.] (past Pioneer Square) – Union Station – Steel Bridge – NE Holladay Street – Hollywood & 42nd TC – Gateway – War Veterans Memorial Freeway – Clackamas
R Red Line Beaverton – Sunset – Washington Park – PGE Park – Library / SW 9th – Pioneer Square – SW 1st Ave. – Steel Bridge – NE Holladay Street – Hollywood & 42nd TC – Gateway – Portland International Airport
Y Yellow Line Portland State University (PSU) – 6th Ave. [back: 5th Ave.] (past Pioneer Square) – Union Station – Steel Bridge – North Insterstate Avenue – Expo Center

STREETCAR ROUTE

PS Portland Streetcar Line Good Samaritan Hospital – Lovejoy St. [back: Northrup St.] – 11th Ave. [back: 10th Ave.] – Portland State University (PSU) – SW Harrison St. – South Waterfront

Note: Route designations by letter are not used by the operator.

AERIAL TRAMWAY (CABLE CAR) ROUTE

Operator: Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

      South Waterfront - Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)


CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH



HISTORY

GAUGE

TRAM PRESERVATION

The Oregon Electric Railway Museum (near Salem, south of Portland) and the Willamette Shore Trolley (between lake Oswego and Portland) run vintage Portland streetcars on museum tracks.


SOURCES

PRINT

WIKIS

WEB SITES


Special thanks to Russell Powers from Denver CO for information on the history of the Portland system.


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