ARTICLE: First Public Look: TriMet Type 6 LRV

TriMet’s new Type 6 MAX system light rail vehicles (LRVs) will make a public “sneak peak” debut on Oct. 15 at the SE Park Ave MAX Station in Milwaukie, Ore. Described by TriMet as “our most technologically advanced” equipment, the Type 6 is a Siemens Mobility S700 low-floor LRV, built at the Siemens plant in Sacramento, Calif.

The Type 6, of which 26 were ordered in 2019 with options for up to 60 more, will replace TriMet’s oldest LRVs, the Bombardier-built Type 1 high-floor, which went into service in 1986 when the agency’s first line, the East Side MAX Project (now the Blue Line), opened. Four additional Type 6s are being purchased for A Better Red MAX Extension and Reliability Project, for a total of 30. Tri-Met expects the Type 6s to enter service by the end of this year. Deliveries were expected to start in 2021 but were delayed until December 2022 by COVID.
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Jeff Smith wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:13 am

TriMet’s new Type 6 MAX system light rail vehicles (LRVs) will make a public “sneak peak” debut on Oct. 15 at the SE Park Ave MAX Station in Milwaukie, Ore.

Deliveries were expected to start in 2021 but were delayed until December 2022 by COVID.
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