Shortline
Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
New Iberia, La / Apr 2002 / JCH
Edward Laton Fuller, great grandfather of Chairman Mortimer B. Fuller III, purchased the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad in 1899. His legacy began as a 14-mile, short line railroad built to transport rock salt from a mine in Western New York. The company has since grown to be a leading owner and operator of short line and regional freight railroads serving more than 2,000 customers over 15,000 miles of track in five countries. During post-Staggers Act restructuring, G&W’s acquisitions were 100% domestic, including the 1996 purchase of Rail Link, today a leading provider of industrial switching and port rail services. Now focused on short line and regional freight railroads, the company changed its name to Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and went public in June of 1996.
Shortline holding company Genesee & Wyoming Inc. owns or leases 121 freight railroads worldwide organized in nine locally managed operating regions with 8,000 employees serving 3,000 customers. The company's seven North American regions serve 41 United States states and four Canadian provinces and include 115 short line and regional freight railroads with more than 13,000 track-miles. Various subsidiaries and joint ventures also provide rail service at more than 40 major ports, rail-ferry service between the U.S. Southeast and Mexico, transload services, contract coal loading, and railcar switching and repair.
The Genesee & Wyoming Railroad was the shortline predecessor to the current holding company. Named for two counties in New York state, Edward L. Fuller purchased it out of a bankruptcy in 1899. At that time, the railroad was operating as a 14-mile long hauler serving a single customer, a salt mine in Retsof, NY, owned by Fuller. It was still operating the same line for the same salt mine when Mortimer B. Fuller III, great grandson of Edward L. Fuller, purchased the railroad in 1977. The holding company, Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Inc., was organized during the same year, and the shortline became its subsidiary.
With the deregulation of the rail industry produced by the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, mainline railroads began disposing of unprofitable routes. Genesee & Wyoming acquired several of these shortline railroads, scattered across the United States, from 1985 to 1996. Its acquisitions began including railroads in other countries in 1997.
Domestic holdings map / web
Macon, Ga / Nov 2018 / RWH
Railroads
Alabama
- Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway
- Conecuh Valley Railroad
- Luxapalila Valley Railroad
- Three Notch Railway
- Wiregrass Central Railway
Arkansas
Florida
Vidalia, Ga / Aug 2019 / RWH
Georgia
- Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway
- Columbus & Chattahoochee Railroad
- Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad
- Georgia Central Railway
- Georgia Southwestern Railroad
- Golden Isles Terminal
- Heart of Georgia Railroad
- Hilton & Albany Railroad
- Valdosta Railway
Noble, Ga / Jun 2019 / RWH
Indiana
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Troy, Al / Jul 2019 / RWH
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Kittanning, Pa / Dec 2016 / RWH
Cordele, Ga / Nov 2019 / RWH
Motive Power
Noble, Ga / Jun 2019 / RWH
Louisiana & Delta #1200
New Iberia, La / Jul 1987 / JCH
Rail Link #1249
Mydharris, Ga / Sep 2019 / RWH
Valdosta Railway #1200
Clyattville, Ga / Mar 2020 / RWH
Chattahoochee Industrial #1554
Clyattville, Ga / Mar 2020 / RWH
Conecuh Valley #1544
Troy, Al / Jul 2019 / RWH
Wiregrass Central #1505
Enterprise, Al / Nov 2018 / RWH
Wiregrass Central #1542
Enterprise, Al / Nov 2018 / RWH
Chattooga & Chickamauga #1700
Noble, Ga / Jun 2019 / RWH
Chattooga & Chickamauga #1804
Noble, Ga / Jun 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #1713
Americus, Ga / Nov 2018 / RWH
Georgia Central #1714
Dublin, Ga / Dec 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #2092
Americus, Ga / Nov 2018 / RWH
Illinois & Midland #30
Sanford, NC / Apr 2019 / RWH
Louisiana & Delta #1501
New Iberia, La / Apr 2002 / JCH
Louisiana & Delta #1502
New Iberia, La / April 1994 / Louis Saillard
Louisiana & Delta #1507
New Iberia, La / Apr 2002 / JCH
Louisiana & Delta #1513
Broussard, La / Nov 2000 / Louis Saillard
Louisiana & Delta #1751
New Iberia, La / Nov 1991 / JCH
Louisiana & Delta #1752
New Iberia, La / Jul 1987 / JCH
Louisiana & Delta #1850
Baldwin, La / Nov 1998 / Louis Saillard
Rail Link #435
Mydharris, Ga / Sep 2019 / RWH
Rail Link #1761
Dublin, Ga / Dec 2019 / RWH
South Carolina Central #1603
Sanford, NC / Apr 2019 / RWH
Conecuh Valley #2022
Andalusia, Al / Nov 2018 / RWH
Georgia Central #2069
Macon, Ga / Oct 2018 / RWH
Georgia Central #2113
Macon, Ga / Apr 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #2114
Macon, Ga / Dec 2018 / RWH
Georgia Central #2115
Vidalia, Ga / Sep 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #2116
Vidalia, Ga / Aug 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #2137
Macon, Ga / Apr 2019 / RWH
Georgia Central #2138
Macon, Ga / Jan 2019 / RWH
Heart of Georgia #2124
Cordele, Ga / Oct 2019 / Max Linder
Heart of Georgia #2125
Cordele, Ga / Oct 2018 / RWH
Heart of Georgia #2129
Cobb, Ga / Aug 2019 / RWH
Heart of Georgia #2130
Vidalia, Ga / Aug 2019 / RWH
Louisiana & Delta #2000
New Iberia, La / Apr 2013 / collection
Wiregrass Central #2023
Andalusia, Al / Nov 2018 / RWH
Buffalo & Pittsburgh #3341
Butler, Pa / Dec 2016 / RWH
Buffalo & Pittsburgh #3343
Butler, Pa / Dec 2016 / RWH
Links / Sources
- Genesee & Wyoming corporate website
- Wikipedia article for Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
- List of railroads owned by Genesee & Wyoming