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Washington Park Station is the deepest rail station in the Western Hemisphere!!, it is 260 feet below street level. It is located in the Robertson Tunnel, a section of the 3-mile tunnels through Portland's West Hills. The station has two platforms that could be considered an island platform connected only where the elevators are at either end. The entire stations decor has a theam of arciology with quotes, facts, and drawings along the walls of the platforms and in the elevator landings. Station acess is in two shafts (one exit at each end of the Light Rail Platforms) of two elevators each. The high speed elevators reach the street-level in only 20 seconds, and at street level, the doors open first on a seperate side from where you get on the elevators. A coll feature of the elevators is that each has a LED indictor that says instead of floor, how many feet you are above sea level (the lower-level is at 450 feet, the upper at 710 feet) |
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| (washingtonpark1) The end of the Westbound platform at Washington Park with the entrance to one of the elevator landings. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 | (washingtonpark2) The exit only side of the upper landing of a set of elevators at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 | (washingtonpark3) The MAX station coloum on street-level at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 | (washingtonpark4) The lower landing of one of the elevator shafts at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 |
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| (washingtonpark5) The Hillsboro-bound platform at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 | (washingtonpark6) Information about geogoly on the Hillsboro-bound platform at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 | (washingtonpark7) Type 3 LRV #327, a red line train for Beverton T.C. opens its doors at Washington Park. Photo by Jeremiah Cox, 5 July, 2006 |
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Last Updated: 7 August, 2006
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