Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Stockholders Approve Resolutions At Annual Meeting

GREENWICH, Conn., May 28, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE: GWR) stockholders approved all resolutions at yesterday's annual meeting.

Michael Norkus was elected by the stockholders to the board of directors for a two-year term. Mr. Norkus is founder and president of Alliance Consulting Group and has served as a director of GWI since 2009. Philip J. Ringo, Mark A. Scudder and Oivind Lorentzen III were elected by the stockholders to the board of directors for three-year terms. Mr. Ringo is senior strategic advisor to Elemica and has served as a director of GWI since 1978. Mr. Scudder is CEO of Scudder Law Firm, P.C., L.L.O. and has served as a director of GWI since 2003. Mr. Lorentzen is president and CEO of Northern Navigation International, Ltd. and has served as a director of GWI since 2006.

In other annual meeting business, the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as GWI's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010, was ratified by the stockholders.

GWI owns and operates short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. Operations currently include 62 railroads organized in nine regions, with approximately 6,000 miles of owned and leased track and approximately 3,400 additional miles under track access arrangements. GWI provides rail service at 16 ports in North America and Europe and performs contract coal loading and railcar switching for industrial customers.

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