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The destination sign display for "Yellow Line", on the side rollsign of a Bombardier LRV (light rail vehicle) in service on TriMet's MAX Yellow Line, in Portland, Oregon. TriMet's Bombardier LRVs (its "Type 1" cars) have signs that are unpowered and can only be changed by using a hand crank, so rather than showing a destination – which would require the operator to change the sign by hand at the end of each trip – they simply show the name and color of the specific MAX line on which they are operating.

Originally, these Type 1 LRVs had rolls that showed destinations (such as "Gresham") in the side signboxes, as well as in the front and rear signboxes, but MAX operators so strongly disliked having to change the two side signs at the end of every trip that they stopped doing so less than one year after the 1986 opening of the first MAX line (and eventually were officially given permission to do so), and the side signs were simply left on "City of Roses" or blank at all times. In the early 2000s, the rolls were replaced with ones reading simply "Blue Line", "Red Line" and "Yellow Line", and not including any destinations. (A "Green Line" reading was added in 2009.)
This is the exterior side of a two-sided signbox, which displays the identical reading on the exterior and interior of the light rail car.
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