And that's what TriMet's inaugural Green Line train is doing as it arrives at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. The train is crossing the eastbound Blue/Red Line track on Yamhill Street at the southwest corner of the square.

The official first train was met by Portland's own Get A Life Marching Band playing the 1970s R&B classic "Love Train" and by a shower of green confetti.

As it pulled up to the platform, an entourage of green-class dancers danced their way off the train and into the square.

TriMet offered free rides on the Green Line Sep. 12-13 as part of the opening weekend celebrations. The new MAX Mall Shuttle, a Monday-Friday afternoon service on the downtown Transit Mall, also began operating Sep. 14.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, September 12, 2009.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, September 13, 2009.

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