PHL earns Harriman Safety Award

Pacific Harbor Line has received the Harriman Certificate of Commendation for the most improved employee safety record among more than 500 smaller U.S. railroads. Association of American Railroads President Ed Hamberger presented the award at a special luncheon in Washington, D.C., honoring this year's award winners. To earn the award, PHL achieved a continuous gain in employee safety from 2008 through 2010 and showed the greatest improvement in the last two years among regional and short-line railroads working between 250,000 and four million man-hours annually. PHL President Mike Stolzman said, "This is a tremendous achievement and recognition of the hard work by our employees to improve our safety record and make Pacific Harbor Line a safer place to work." This is the first Harriman award earned by an Anacostia & Pacific company, a regional railroad development firm. Other Anacostia rail affiliates include: Chicago South Shore & South Bend, Gulf Coast Switching Company, Louisville & Indiana, New York & Atlantic and Northern Lines Railway.