Genesee & Wyoming
History
1899 acquired Edward Laton Fuller the bankrupt Genesee and Wyoming Valley Railway from Greigsville to Caledonia, New York, to carry away the salt from its own mine. By 1977, the company served only the local transport. It was mainly the International Salt Company with its mine in Retsof, which provided for stable income, but also a great dependence meant. Saw with the adoption of the Staggers Act 1980 and the associated deregulation in the American Railway Engineering Mortimer B. Fuller III, great-grandson of Edward Fuller came, the chance to zulösen from this dependence.
In the following 16 years, the company grew with the acquisition of 14 railway lines in New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Oregon and Illinois. In 1996 she bought rail link to and expanded the portfolio to include more routes, and port and industrial railways. Rail Link was responsible as a subsidiary for the smaller companies. Took place in June 2005 with the acquisition of Rail Management Corporation, a further enlargement of the route network. The acquired with this purchase Railways Rail Link were assumed.
With the worldwide privatization of railways, Genesee and Wyoming began in these markets outside of the U.S. to come in and acquired interests in Canada, Mexico, Australia and Bolivia. Participation in the Australian Australian Railroad Group ( ARG) was abandoned again in 2006. This only remained the route network in South Australia in the company owned. By Hurricane Stan in 2005 over 70 bridges and 280 kilometers of track of the Mexican Ferrocarriles Chiapas - Mayab were destroyed. Since a reconstruction of the route is uneconomic, GWI announced on 25 June 2007 back his license and ceased to operate on the route definitively.
On 15 April 2008 the acquisition of the Dutch railway company Rotterdam Rail Feeding was announced. On June 1, 2008, the acquisition of cagy Industries, mother of the railway companies Columbus and Greenville Railway ( C & G), Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway ( CCKY ) and Luxapalila Valley Railroad ( LXVR ), done. On 1 October of the same year, further acquisitions were completed. For one thing, took over for $ 234.3 million the Ohio Central Railroad System consisting of ten tracks and the Georgia Southwestern Railroad.
On September 29, 2009, the sale of the stake in Bolivian Ferroviaria Oriental occurred.
In July 2012, Genesee & Wyoming announced that they will take over the competitors RailAmerica for $ 1.4 billion. With the takeover of the rail network in the United States would increase to 24,000 km. In addition, the combined company would operate over 110 railway lines.
Railway companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming
Rotterdam Rail Feeding ( RRF ) is a Dutch railway company based in Rotterdam. RRF part of the U.S. company Genesee and Wyoming and has 35 employees.
RRF was established in 2004 as the daughter of railroad personnel service Spoorflex. The following year the company was incorporated. It began with Marshalling in belonging to the port of Rotterdam Maasvlakte marshalling yard. In the following years the expansion of its business operations and the purchase of own locomotives took place. So transportation services between the transfer stations and the loading terminals in the port of Rotterdam to be performed. Furthermore, we, in cooperation with the parent company ready locomotives and personnel for construction and maintenance company. On 15 April 2008 the takeover by the American railroad company Genesee and Wyoming was announce. The purchase price was $ 21.4 million.
Since 2009, the company operates freight throughout the Netherlands, since April 2011 Marshalling in the Belgian port of Antwerp to be performed.
The RRF has a fleet of 16 locomotives. Of these, five belong to the NS Series 600, five on the DR series V 100.1 (DR- 112 series ) and six for SNCB series 73 In Belgium, three rented Vossloh G 2000 BB are used.
- Website of the RRF
- Stock list on www.privat -bahn.de
- Info on railfan.nl (Dutch )
Category: Railway Company ( Netherlands ) Category: Organization ( Rotterdam) Category: Companies ( South Holland ) Category: Genesee and Wyoming Category: Founded in 2004