The main maintenance and repair shops for all lines of the PRL&P from late 1912 onwards. The facility had dual-gauge tracks to accommodate narrow and standard gauge cars from all divisions. Standard gauge cars used track along SE Center Street off the Sellwood line to enter the shops; narrow-gauge cars used track off the Brooklyn line along SE 16th Avenue and SE Rhone Street—maintaining this access is the reason why the Brooklyn line was not converted to standard gauge operation.
As the traction company’s streetcar fleet diminished in the late 1940s, Center Street became the main yard for the new buses and trolleybuses.
These shops survived well past the streetcar era, being sold to Rose City Transit in 1956 and were finally demolished in August 1979 to make way for TriMet’s headquarters and primary bus operating base. PGE—both an ancestor and descendent of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company—also now occupies a site at the northern end of the old Center Street tract.