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Pacific Harbor Line promoted Stephane Perri to vice president, effective January 2020. Perri’s rail career spans 20 years beginning with PHL in April 2000 as an assistant locomotive engineer. In 2005, he advanced to assistant trainmaster and subsequently moved through management posts becoming senior director of Transportation in 2016, superintendent in 2017 and general superintendent

Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company, has reached an agreement with Pacific Harbor Line (PHL) to supply its new EMD® Joule battery electric locomotive for a demonstration project operating in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. The new, six-axle locomotive will feature the latest lithium-ion battery technology and battery management system, alongside AC

Pacific Harbor Line, Inc. (PHL) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have signed a new five-year labor agreement. The contract, effective September 20, governs rates of pay, benefits and work rules for 150 of PHL’s 189 employees. In a joint announcement, PHL-BLET said, “The new agreement includes wage increases, a matching 401(k)

Pacific Harbor Line has appointed Monte Stokes as chief engineer of the 75-mile short-line railroad serving the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Effective February 1, he succeeds Robert Giannoble, who retired effective December 31, 2020. Stokes joins PHL from the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), where he had been deputy division engineer at