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C. Sean Day Elected to Board of Directors of Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

2 August 2000

C. Sean Day Elected to Board of Directors of Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

     GREENWICH, Conn. - Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced today that C. Sean Day 
has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors.  Mr. Day currently holds a 
number of senior positions in the shipping, banking and venture capital 
industries including, Chairman of Teekay Shipping Corporation , Director of 
Kirby Corporation , Director of Oceanic Bank and Trust Limited (Bahamas),
Chairman of The Compass Group (Westport, CT) and Chairman of Transmarine
Navigation Corp. (Long Beach, CA).   Mr. Day holds a Masters degree in
Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a business degree from the University
of Cape Town (South Africa).

    Mortimer Fuller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GWI commented,
"Sean Day is a leading figure in the international transportation industry.
We welcome him to our Board of Directors and look forward to the leadership
and experience that he will bring to our Company."

    GWI is a leading operator of short line and regional freight railroads in
the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia, and provides freight car
switching and related services to industrial companies that have extensive
railroad facilities within their complexes.  In 1999, GWI marked the
one-hundredth anniversary of its founding as a 14-mile railroad in upstate New
York.  The Company today operates in four countries on two continents over
3,750 miles of owned and leased track.  It also operates over an additional
2,700 miles under track access arrangements.