Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Revises Time of Webcast Presentation to The Robins Group LLC Small Cap Round-Up

November 12, 2003

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE: GWR) announced that there will be a change in the time of their live webcast at The Robins Group LLC Small Cap Round-Up in Portland, Oregon today. Mortimer B. Fuller III will provide a financial and strategic overview of the company beginning at 4:45 p.m. PST, 7:45 EST, on November 12. The URL for the webcast is: http://www.veracast.com/robins/small_cap_roundup03/. The webcast will be archived approximately one hour after the live event.

A link will also be available on the GWI website at http://www.gwrr.com. To access the webcast, click on the Investors tab.

GWI is a leading operator of short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Bolivia, operating over 8,000 miles of owned and leased track and over an additional 3,000 miles under track access arrangements.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding Genesee & Wyoming's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.