Ruby Junction

Ruby Junction/East 197th Avenue

MAX Light Rail Station

Location

SE Burnside St & 197th Ave
Gresham, Oregon
USA

Coordinates

45°30′58″N 122°27′37″W / 45.516058°N 122.460177°WCoordinates: 45°30′58″N 122°27′37″W / 45.516058°N 122.460177°W

Owned by

TriMet

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Bicycle facilities

bike racks

Disabled access

Yes

History

Opened

September 5, 1986

Services

Preceding station		MAX Light Rail		Following station
Rockwood/E 188th Ave toward Hatfield Government Center		Blue Line		Civic Drive toward Cleveland Ave

Ruby Junction/East 197th Avenue is a MAX light rail station in Gresham, Oregon. It serves the Blue Line and is the 22nd stop eastbound on the eastside MAX line. The station is at the intersection of SE 197th Avenue and Burnside Street.

The station's namesake, Ruby Junction, was a junction of electric interurban lines located immediately east of this location for many years and the name of an interurban stop. With the abandonment of the interurban lines west along Burnside Street to Montavilla and north to Troutdale, in 1927, it ceased being a junction, but interurban cars running between Portland and Bull Run (later cut back to Gresham) continued to pass through the area until the 1940s, and the location was still referred to as Ruby Junction.

The station serves the Ruby Junction Maintenance and Operations Facility, often the point where MAX operators switch shifts, or trains returning to the yards terminate, according to their rollsigns. In 2004, when the Interstate MAX part of the MAX Yellow Line was being built, the facility was being expanded.

The station was located in TriMet fare zone 4 from its opening in 1986 until September 1988, and in zone 3 from then until September 2012, at which time TriMet discontinued all use of zones in its fare structure.

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