Editing TriMet (section)

== Paint schemes ==
[[File:TriMet 30-foot Gillig buses.jpg|thumb|right|TriMet's pre-2002 (right) and post-2002 paint schemes illustrated on 1991 [[Gillig Phantom]] buses (a type of bus now retired in TriMet's fleet)]]
TriMet has had four main paint schemes during its five-decade history. The agency's first paint scheme, adopted in April 1970,<ref name="oreg-1970apr8">{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 8, 1970 |title=Buses Wear New Colors |work=The Oregonian |at=Section 1, p. 24}}</ref> featured a [[tangerine (color)|tangerine]] (or [[Orange (colour)|orange]]) base with silver (unpainted metal) along the middle portion of the lower half and a [[white]] stripe below and above the windows.<ref name="oreg-1970apr8" /> The windshield also had a white outline around it. The white above the windows curved upward to the roof at the first door, leaving the bus's front section all orange at the roof.

TriMet's second paint scheme, which was adopted in August 1980<ref name="oreg-1980aug12">{{Cite news |last=Guernsey |first=John |date=August 12, 1980 |title=Tri-Met approves bus fare increase |work=The Oregonian |page=1}}</ref> and was the agency's standard paint scheme from 1980 to 2002 (but remains in use on most of the Type 2 MAX cars in 2021), features a white base with a three-color stripe below the windows. The stripe colors are (in order from top to bottom) [[burgundy (color)|burgundy]], red and orange,<ref name="oreg-1980aug12" /><ref name="oreg-1983may7">{{Cite news |last=Federman |first=Stan |date=May 7, 1983 |title=Light-rail cars' colors to be 'brightened up' |work=The Oregonian |page=C3}}</ref> and near the front on each side the stripe makes a sharp bend and angles upward to the roof (except on MAX cars). The logo of TriMet{{spaced endash}}which at that time was still using the hyphenated spelling ''Tri-Met''{{spaced endash}}was shown on the front end.

TriMet's third paint scheme, of white with blue and "buttery" yellow, was adopted in August 2002.<ref name="hyphendrop" /><ref name="oreg-2002aug14">{{Cite news |last=Leeson |first=Fred |date=August 14, 2002 |title=Hyphen and '70s hues left by wayside |work=The Oregonian |page=C1}}</ref> It features a white base with a large [[blue]] semi-circle at the top, curving downward, and a smaller pale [[yellow]] semi-circle at the bottom, curving upward. This was the first paint scheme to use the current logo.

TriMet's current standard paint scheme was introduced in early 2019. It is all-over blue with three orange vertical, and slightly angled, lines in the rear portion on each side, with the middle line being thicker than the two outer lines.<ref name="goes retro" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Wanek-Libman |first=Mischa |date=February 18, 2019 |title=TriMet ready to roll out 64 new buses in 2019 |url=https://www.masstransitmag.com/bus/vehicles/article/21068780/trimet-ready-to-roll-out-64-new-buses-in-2019 |access-date=September 15, 2019 |magazine=Mass Transit}}</ref> TriMet's Frequent Express (FX) buses have a similar paint scheme, but with green and blue colors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2021 |title=TriMet unveils new look coming with better bus service in the Division Street corridor |url=https://news.trimet.org/2021/06/trimet-unveils-new-look-coming-with-better-bus-service-in-the-division-street-corridor/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630234421/https://news.trimet.org/2021/06/trimet-unveils-new-look-coming-with-better-bus-service-in-the-division-street-corridor/ |archive-date=June 30, 2021 |access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>

There have also been other paint scheme variations. TriMet's 3800-series battery-electric buses use an all-blue paint scheme with several blue stripes and wind turbine graphics to call attention to their being all-electric buses.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Converting to a Greener Bus Fleet |url=https://trimet.org/bettertransit/greenbusfleet.htm#short-range |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611190153/https://trimet.org/bettertransit/greenbusfleet.htm#short-range |archive-date=June 11, 2021 |access-date=June 11, 2021}}</ref> The WES [[Budd Rail Diesel Car|RDCs]] use a paint scheme of mostly bare metal with a large white stripe along the windows, and a smaller blue stripe above the white stripe. The front of the train has a blue and yellow stripe pattern.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Craghead |first=Alexander |date=November 18, 2019 |title=Budd Cars for Portland |url=https://railfan.com/budd-cars-for-portland/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127060847/https://railfan.com/budd-cars-for-portland/ |archive-date=November 27, 2019 |website=[[Railfan & Railroad]]}}</ref>