Ports to Replace Polluting Locomotives

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Under pressure to reduce air pollution at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, the two port agencies and their railroad operator have reached a deal to replace 18 polluting locomotives with cleaner models.


The $23 million replacement program still needs the approval of the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions. Pacific Harbor Line, the private company that has provided railroad switching services at the ports since 1998, has consented to the replacements, port officials said.


The deal to replace 18 harbor locomotives some more than 50 years old is part of a new 10-year extension of an agreement between the ports and Pacific Harbor Line giving the company control of railroad switching operations and dispatching for BNSF Railway and Union Pacific trains at the ports.


Pacific Harbor Line has agreed to acquire 16 locomotives equipped with new cleaner-burning diesel engines, another that runs on liquefied natural gas and another incorporating hybrid-diesel battery technology.

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