History
The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles with the direction of John Rinard, PE completed the purchase of Southern Pacific's Alameda Corridor line for $235 million in December 1994. The line went into operation April 15, 2002 and reached a peak of 60 train movements per day in October 2006. It is credited with significantly relieving congestion on the Long Beach Freeway (I-710) and elsewhere in the region. During calendar year 2007, the line carried 17,824 trains carrying 4.7 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers.
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