Pacific Harbor Line’s new partnership with Remora brings mobile carbon capture to locomotives. If it works, the idea could rewrite the near-term playbook for cleaning rail yards—without waiting for battery or hydrogen fleets to arrive.
At the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—the country’s busiest container gateway—Pacific Harbor Line (PHL) does the unglamorous, essential work of shuttling trains between docks, terminals and the main lines. This week, the short line said it will develop and test on-vehicle carbon capture with Remora, a Michigan climate-tech start-up best known for attaching CO₂ scrubbers to diesel truck exhausts.
