Railway Age Names Pacific Harbor Line ‘2009 Short Line Railroad of the Year’
LOS ANGELES — Railway Age magazine has named Wilmington, Calif.-based Pacific Harbor Line, Inc. 2009 Short Line Railroad of the Year for replacing and expanding its entire locomotive fleet with 22 low-emission diesel-electric units. Doing so also made Pacific Harbor Line the greenest railroad in America. The railroad estimates fuel savings of seven to nine percent. Particulate emissions have been cut by at least 70 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions are 46 percent lower. Pacific Harbor Line began operations in 1998 serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which are the two busiest container ports by volume in