Light Rail: Night Rail

by Aaron Hockley on July 10, 2007

Some folks on a certain railroad photography mailing list are all up in arms about the fact that the new issue of TRAINS magazine features a streetcar on the cover.  If that bothers you, skip this post.

Last Saturday I spent a couple hours near downtown Portland taking some night photos.  Several of them involved the TriMet MAX light rail trains in the area.

First is my favorite from the evening, shot from a ramp up to the Steel Bridge with a long exposure as traffic stops and a train passes:

On the Steel

The following set of images were shot at the Old Town / Chinatown MAX station over a period of half an hour with a variety of platform activity and passing trains:

Night Time at the Old Town Platform

LRV passing in the Night

Boarding

Intersection

It was fun to shoot something a little different in the urban environment.

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