Genesee & Wyoming Inc. to Webcast Presentation to Western New York Investors Conference

November 12, 2003

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI) (NYSE: GWR) announced that on Thursday, November 20, President and Chief Operating Officer Charles N. Marshall will provide a financial and strategic overview of the company at the Western New York Investors Conference in Buffalo, New York.

The presentation will be webcast live beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST on November 20. The URL for the webcast is: http://www.shareholder.com/genesee/medialist.cfm

The webcast will be archived for 30 days after the event and will be available at the same URL.

A link also will be available on the GWI web site 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.