Genessee & Wyoming

Genesee & Wyoming Railroad, established by Edward Laton Fuller in 1899, started as a 14-mile shortline serving the Retsof Salt Mining Company in Retsof, NY. It remained under Fuller family control until 1917 and was built into Genesee & Wyoming Inc., a company with 122 freight railroads operating in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.