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WES Commuter Rail

Index WES Commuter Rail

WES Commuter Rail, or Westside Express Service, is a United States commuter rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area, mostly following busy Oregon Highway 217 and Interstate 5. [1]

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Alaska Railroad

The Alaska Railroad is a Class II railroad which extends from Seward and Whittier, in the south of the state of Alaska, in the United States, to Fairbanks (passing through Anchorage), and beyond to Eielson Air Force Base and Fort Wainwright in the interior of that state.

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American Public Transportation Association

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA), formerly known as the American Public Transit Association, is a nonprofit organization which serves as an advocate for the advancement of public transportation programs and initiatives in the United States.

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Aurora, Oregon

Aurora is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States.

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Beaverton Transit Center

The Beaverton Transit Center is a bus, light rail and commuter rail station in Beaverton, Oregon, United States.

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Beaverton Valley Times

The Beaverton Valley Times, also known as the Valley Times, is a weekly newspaper covering the city of Beaverton, Oregon, United States, and adjacent unincorporated areas in the northern part of the Tualatin Valley.

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Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Budd Company

The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.

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Budd Rail Diesel Car

The Budd Rail Diesel Car, RDC or Buddliner is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit (DMU) railcar.

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Burlington Northern Railroad

The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads.

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C-Tran (Washington)

The C-Tran (stylized as C-TRAN), more formally the Clark County Public Transit Benefit Area Authority, is a public transit agency serving Clark County, Washington, United States, including the cities of Battle Ground, Camas, Vancouver, Washougal, and Yacolt.

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Canby Area Transit

Canby Area Transit, or simply CAT, is the public transit bus service provided by and for the US city of Canby, Oregon.

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Canby, Oregon

Canby is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

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Cherriots

Cherriots, officially the Salem Area Mass Transit District, is a public transit operator based in Salem, Oregon, US.

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Clackamas County, Oregon

Clackamas County is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Colorado Railcar

Colorado Railcar was a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock, railcars and diesel multiple unit commuter vehicles.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Commuter rail in North America

Commuter rail services in the United States, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama provide common carrier passenger transportation along railway tracks, with scheduled service on fixed routes on a non-reservation basis, primarily for short-distance (local) travel between a central business district and adjacent suburbs and regional travel between cities of a conurbation.

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Control car

A control car, control trailer or driving trailer is a generic term for a non-powered railroad (US) or railway (UIC) vehicle that can control operation of a train from the end opposite to the position of the locomotive.

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Daily Journal of Commerce

The Daily Journal of Commerce (DJC) is a U.S. newspaper published Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Portland, Oregon.

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Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a transit agency in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Decibel

The decibel (symbol: dB) is a unit of measurement used to express the ratio of one value of a physical property to another on a logarithmic scale.

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Detroit Diesel

Detroit Diesel Corporation (DDC) is an American diesel engine manufacturer headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States and a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Daimler AG.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Donald, Oregon

Donald is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States.

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Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Federal Transit Administration

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is an agency within the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to local public transportation systems.

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Gauntlet track

Gauntlet track or interlaced track (also gantlet track) is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced (i.e., overlapped) such that only one pair of rails may be used at a time.

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Gordon H. Smith

Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is an American politician, a former United States Senator and businessman from the state of Oregon.

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Hall/Nimbus station

Hall/Nimbus station is a train and bus station on the Westside Express Service (WES) commuter rail line in Beaverton, Oregon, United States.

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Horsepower

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done).

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Interstate 5 in Oregon

Interstate 5 (I-5) in the U.S. state of Oregon is a major Interstate Highway that traverses the state from north to south.

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Lake Oswego, Oregon

Lake Oswego is a city in the State of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties.

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Leslie Controls

Leslie Controls, Inc., part of the Thermal Fluid Division of Circor International Inc., is a manufacturer of industrial water heaters, control systems and regulators headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

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MAX Blue Line

The MAX Blue Line is a 33-mile (53 km) light rail line in the MAX Light Rail system in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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MAX Light Rail

MAX Light Rail, or Metropolitan Area Express, is a light rail system consisting of five separate lines (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow lines) serving 97 stations in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon.

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MAX Red Line

The MAX Red Line is a light rail line in the Metropolitan Area Express system in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area.

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in northeastern United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.

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Nippon Sharyo DMU

The Nippon Sharyo DMU is a model of diesel multiple unit passenger train designed and manufactured by Nippon Sharyo for the North American market, and compliant with FRA Tier 1 crash-worthiness standards.

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Oregon Electric Railway

The Oregon Electric Railway (OER) was an interurban railroad line in the U.S. state of Oregon that linked Portland to Eugene.

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Oregon Route 141

Oregon Route 141, known as the Beaverton-Tualatin Highway No.

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Oregon Route 217

Oregon Route 217 is an Oregon state highway which serves the western suburbs of Portland.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Park and ride

Park and ride (or incentive parking) facilities are parking lots with public transport connections that allow commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rapid transit, light rail, or commuter rail), or carpool for the remainder of the journey.

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Portland and Western Railroad

The Portland and Western Railroad is a Class II railroad serving the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of shortline and regional railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The PNWR includes a subsidiary, the Willamette and Pacific Railroad.

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Portland International Airport

Portland International Airport is a joint civil-military airport and the largest airport in the U.S. state of Oregon that accounts for 90 percent of passenger travel and more than 95 percent of air cargo of the state.

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Portland metropolitan area

The Portland metropolitan area or Greater Portland is a metropolitan area in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington centered on the principal city of Portland, Oregon.

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Portland Tribune

The Portland Tribune is a free newspaper published twice weekly, each Tuesday and Thursday, in Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Positive train control

Positive train control (PTC) is a system of functional requirements for monitoring and controlling train movements and is a type of train protection system.

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Railfan & Railroad

Railfan & Railroad is an American monthly magazine that has been in publication since the 1970s.

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Rush hour

A rush hour (American English, British English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest.

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Sherwood, Oregon

Sherwood is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States.

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South Metro Area Regional Transit

South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART) is a public transit system operated by the city government of Wilsonville, Oregon, United States.

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Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines

The Southern Pacific Red Electric Lines, also known simply as the Red Electric, was a network of interurban passenger train services operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon from 1914 to 1929.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Standing passenger

In urban public transport, provision is made for standing passengers, often called straphangers or standees, to rationalize operation and to provide extra capacity during rush hour.

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The Hillsboro Argus

The Hillsboro Argus was a twice-weekly newspaper in the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, from 1894 to 2017, known as the Washington County Argus for its final year.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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Tigard Transit Center

Tigard Transit Center (more formally known as the Thomas M. Brian Tigard Transit Center) is a bus transfer center and train station in Tigard, Oregon, United States.

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Tigard, Oregon

Tigard is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States.

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Train horn

A train horn is a powerful air horn that serves as an audible warning device on electric and Diesel locomotives.

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Trains (magazine)

Trains is a monthly US magazine dedicated to trains and railroads, and is one of the two flagship publications of Kalmbach Publishing.

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Tramways & Urban Transit

Tramways & Urban Transit (TAUT or T&UT), also known as Modern Tramway, is a British monthly magazine about tramways and light rail transport, published continuously since 1938.

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Transportation in Portland, Oregon

Like transportation in the rest of the United States, the primary mode of local transportation in Portland, Oregon is the automobile.

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TriMet

TriMet, more formally known as the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, is a public agency that operates mass transit in a region that spans most of the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Trinity Railway Express

The Trinity Railway Express (or TRE) is a commuter rail line in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Tualatin station

Tualatin station is a train station along the Westside Express Service (WES) commuter rail line in Tualatin, Oregon, United States.

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Tualatin, Oregon

Tualatin is a city located primarily in Washington County in the State of Oregon.

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Via Rail

Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as VIA Rail Canada) is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by Transport Canada, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada.

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Washington County, Oregon

Washington County is one of 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Washington Square (Oregon)

Washington Square is a shopping mall in the city of Tigard, Oregon, United States.

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Wilsonville station

Wilsonville station is a train station and transit center on the Westside Express Service (WES) commuter rail line in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States.

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Wilsonville, Oregon

Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

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Woodburn, Oregon

Woodburn is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States.

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Redirects here:

MAX Purple Line, MAX WES Line, WES commuter line, Washington County Commuter Rail, Westside Express Service.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WES_Commuter_Rail

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