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Everything deserves a beauty shot, and here's another one of the MAX Blue Line, taken as though I was documenting it for TriMet (allow me a fantasy here). It's leaving the Steel Bridge from the east end and about to pull in to the Rose Quarter Transit Center bound for Gresham ... and no other points east.
At a time when there was only one MAX line, and it was just called the MAX, no color-coded lines or any of this gallimaufy we call transit in Portland these days, The Oregonian's Jonathan Nicholas (the latter-day Doug Baker and our fin de siècle version of Herb Caen) noted that a correspondent, noting that it didn't quite and was never going to route any farther east than Cleveland Avenue in Gresham, mentioned it would therefore never be the Boring Train ...
... but one could think of it as the Almost Orient Express. Which I do.
... but one could think of it as the Almost Orient Express. Which I do.
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