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The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad (reporting mark GNWR) was a flagship short-line railroad owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The G&W Railroad was the small Western NY salt-hauling railroad that ran between Retsof, New York , and Caledonia, New York , only 14.5 miles (23.3 km) long, and began in 1899. [ 1 ]
The following is a list of railroads owned by Genesee & Wyoming. Genesee & Wyoming owns or leases 122 railroads across North America , the United Kingdom and Europe . [ 1 ]
Most of the system's routes were divested from Class I railroads and connect industries to the Class I railroads. The Ohio Central operates on track owned by other entities, including a line from Newark, Ohio to Mount Vernon, Ohio owned by CSX [ 1 ] and the old Panhandle Route , owned by the State of Ohio .
The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was the flagship predecessor to the G&W; Edward L. Fuller purchased it out of a bankruptcy in 1899. At that time, the railroad was operating as a 14.5-mile long (23.3 km) single-track line serving a single customer, a salt mine owned by Fuller in Retsof, New York.
The San Joaquin Valley Railroad (reporting mark SJVR) is one of several short line railroad companies and is part of the Western Region Division of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operates over about 371 miles (597 km) of owned or leased track primarily on several lines in California's Central Valley/San Joaquin Valley around Fresno and Bakersfield.
The Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway (reporting mark AGR) is a Class II railroad [1] owned by Genesee & Wyoming. It operates 292 miles (470 km) of track [ 2 ] from the Pensacola, Florida export terminals, west of downtown, north to Columbus, Mississippi , with trackage rights along BNSF Railway to Amory, Mississippi .
PPU 2000 at Peoria, IL. The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad (T&P) (reporting mark TZPR) (November 1, 2004—present) is a short-line railroad, running entirely in Peoria County and Tazewell County, Illinois, and formed by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. to lease the assets of the century-old Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (P&PU), which is owned by Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National.
The Genesee Valley Transportation Company (GVT Rail), based in Batavia, New York, is a holding company for several short-line railroads located in New York and Pennsylvania. Founded by Jeffrey Baxter, Charles Riedmiller, John Herbrand, Michael Thomas and David Monte Verde, GVT Rail has grown from a five-mile switching operation in Buffalo, New ...