Tri-Met MAX- Portland Oregon Bombardier Type I. Siemens SD600 and SD660 Light Rail Vehicle

[FlyerE901]

Interesting on the first clip how they paired up a high floor & low floor train together.

[F40PHR231]

@FlyerE901

They always pair a high floor LRV with a low floor one to ensure that all trains are accessible to those in mobile devices. There have been some anomolies of a single high-floor train running by itself in service, that's usually because a low-floor car had to be removed from the train and the high-floor one continues to the end of the route.

[FlyerE901]

Thanks for the info. It's been 4 years since I last went down to Portland. Looks like it's time to pay another visit.

[decline2state]

@F40PHR231 I thought it was illegal (because of ADA or similar laws) to operate a high-floor vehicle by itself, or with another high-floor. I would think that if a low-floor vehicle attached to a high-floor had to be taken out of service, the high-floor vehicle would also have to be taken out and replaced with a low-floor.

Does TriMet plan on retiring the Type I's? They've got to be getting quite old, as well as being non-ADA compliant.

[F40PHR231]

@decline2state

TriMet doesn't allow for a *scheduled* high-floor-only train, but like I said earlier, sometimes mechanical problems come up and they had to leave or abandon the low-floor consist on some side track.

The high-floor train would continue on as scheduled, and a new low-floor car would wait for them at either Ruby Junction or Elmonica yards. As long as an effort is made to get a replacement, it's not really an ADA violation. Type 1s still have 10 years left.