Editing MAX Light Rail (section)

==Maintenance facilities==
[[File:Main building at TriMet's Ruby Junction MAX maintenance facility from south (2016).jpg|thumb|right|The main building at the Ruby Junction maintenance facility]]

TriMet's vehicle-maintenance complexes for the MAX system are the Ruby Junction facility in Gresham and the smaller Elmonica facility in Beaverton.<ref name="oreg-2010aug23">{{cite news |last1=Preusch |first1=Matthew |title=TriMet's Ruby Junction maintenance yard continues to grow with MAX |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/trimets_ruby_junction_maintena.html |work=The Oregonian |date=April 23, 2010 |access-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-date=May 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504142830/http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2010/04/trimets_ruby_junction_maintena.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="pamplin-ruby-2016">{{cite news |last=Carson |first=Teresa |title=Ruby keeps MAX sparkling |url=https://pamplinmedia.com/go/42-news/316878-195816-ruby-keeps-max-sparkling |access-date=April 23, 2019 |work=[[The Outlook (Gresham)|The Outlook]]<!--(also in the Portland Tribune on August 4, page A11)--> |date=July 29, 2016 |location=Gresham, Oregon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001172242/http://portlandtribune.com/go/42-news/316878-195816-ruby-keeps-max-sparkling |archive-date=October 1, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Ruby Junction facility is located near [[Ruby Junction/East 197th Avenue station]] while the Elmonica facility is adjacent to [[Elmonica/Southwest 170th Avenue station]]; both are on the Blue Line.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://trimet.org/publications/pdf/factsheets/rail-maintenance.pdf |title=Rail Maintenance Facilities |publisher=TriMet |date=July 2016 |access-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-date=July 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714055602/https://trimet.org/publications/pdf/factsheets/rail-maintenance.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ruby Junction began with one building that TriMet built as part of the original MAX project in the early 1980s; it had expanded to three multi-story buildings totaling {{convert|143,000|ft2|m2}} occupying {{convert|17|acre|ha}} by 2010,<ref name="oreg-2010aug23"/> and to four buildings totalling {{convert|149,000|ft2|m2}} occupying {{convert|23|acre|ha}} by 2016. It contains 13 maintenance bays and its yard tracks have the capacity to store 87 light rail cars. In 2016, around 200 employees worked at Ruby Junction and almost 200 MAX operators operated trains that were based there. In addition to vehicle maintenance, crews who maintain the MAX system's tracks and signals are also based at Ruby Junction.<ref name="pamplin-ruby-2016"/> In 2015, some [[maintenance-of-way]] personnel moved into the [[Portland Vintage Trolley]] carbarn next to Rose Quarter Transit Center after Vintage Trolley service was discontinued.<ref name=oreg-2013dec6>{{cite news |last=Rose |first=Joseph |title=TriMet on verge of sending Portland's vintage holiday trolleys to St. Louis |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2013/12/trimet_on_verge_of_sending_hol.html |access-date=April 23, 2019 |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=December 6, 2013 |archive-date=December 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210113245/http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2013/12/trimet_on_verge_of_sending_hol.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ruby Junction originally housed light-rail operations, communications, and administrative workers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Federman |first=Stan |title=Light-rail complex almost complete: Ruby Junction due to open in July; track work beginning |newspaper=The Oregonian |date=June 2, 1983 |page=C7}}</ref>

The Elmonica facility was built as part of the Westside MAX Project in the mid-1990s and was completed in 1996. Its building has {{convert|78,000|ft2|m2}} of space.<ref name="oreg-1996jan22">{{cite news |last1=Colby |first1=Richard N. |title=Light-rail milestone: The $16 million Westside MAX maintenance building in Elmonica is dedicated |work=The Oregonian |edition=West Metro |date=January 22, 1996}}</ref>