Link Light Rail Operations and Maintenance FacilityHighlights
The Operations & Maintenance (O & M) Facility is on a 25-acre site located south of South Forest Street and west of Airport Way in the industrial area south of Downtown Seattle. The facility will accommodate the initial fleet of 35 light rail vehicles and has an ultimate capacity of 104 vehicles.
The O & M building is a 162,000-square foot building supported on 1,100 steel piles.
The maintenance shop contains nine bays with room for two light rail vehicles per bay. Major maintenance equipment includes a hydraulic light rail vehicle hoist with turntables to move components into the adjacent truck shop, cranes for maintenance on nine light rail vehicles, a bridge crane to transfer components to adjacent second floor repair shop, a wheel truing machine, a body shop with frame straightening equipment, a fully enclosed paint booth for light rail vehicle painting, and an automated light rail vehicle wash and a truck shop.
The four-story O & M building contains component repair shops on the first and second floors, an electronics repair shop, a signals and communications lab and a communications maintenance shop as well as the Central Control Room, training rooms and offices and amenities for maintenance and operations management and administrative personnel.
Construction began in November 2003, and is now complete.
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