Harbor Line. Sitting in Wilmington near San Pedro, California on the afternoon of March 30, 2012, Pacific Harbor Line/PHL 60 (MP20C-3PR, MPI/Progress Rail, 2007) awaits the next call to service. Pacific Harbor Line was created in 1998 to take over the original Harbor Belt Line, which was formed in 1929. The railroad serves the area ports as a neutral switching railroad, and when originally formed was composed of personnel and equipment from Pacific Electric Lines (PE), Southern Pacific (SP),Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) and Union Pacific (UP). While the ATSF freight paint scheme has endured, other corporate changes reduced the number of railroads participating to two, and the creation of this new entity ensued.
