Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. (GWR)

Have taken a pretty good beating so far but the rails wil rise once again.

Best stock I own. They have good cost control and play on the borders of all the main railroads. Also a big player in Australia a country just taking off.

GWR is a well run company with excess capacity ready to deploy as demand returns. They are very well positioned to efficiently transport the bulk aggregates that will be needed to supply the infrastructure rebuilding projects in the coming years.

Railroad, Energy efficient, Cost effective, more bang for the transportation buck!

Real $ in this guy...

Smart buyer of shortline RR routes.

When economy picks up, these routes will improve in terms of gross margings/profits

Historically overperforms the S&P, I do however expect an increase in the share price as it's been beaten almost to ½ it's 52 week high

GWR stayed more green than anything in my portfolio during the worst of 08 . Evertything I read about them is a glowing report.

Once oil $$$ picks back up, companies will use rail as shipping method for goods.

This is a nice sleeper railroad stock. It owns most of it's own tracks and has good positions in the U.S., Canada, Australia and even a small play in Bolivia. The company doesn't hesitate to eliminate non-performing positions (recently vacated Mexico). The price is right and when fuel prices begin to go back up the use of rail will follow suit as it's a cheaper choice of shipping compared to air.

Genessee is on the right track these days, providing short haul alternatives to fuel-expensive trucking options.

Fuskie

Whose DB3 is a train fanatic and says this is a well run company, which is good enough for him...

tech

They have a plan and watch thier costs.

Train freight can only increase. This company is well positioned to handle the regional demand that the larger lines will not be able to meet.

Rail shipping should increase in the next 5 years as the relative cost to other forms of transportation is low.

The use in railroads will continue to rise as a substiute for cheaper freight movement. GWR operates short-line railroads with lower costs and in areas of the country that have concistent need for rail.

Shortline tax credit was renewed by Congress on 10/3/08. EPS estimates will begin to rise.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees freight railroad use jumping 88% over the next 25 years.

"All the evidence is there that the train is returning to a degree once never expected [and that] an economic and cultural tsunami is about to transform the United States," says Harvard professor John Stilgoe, author of the recently published book Train Time. "Change is everywhere along the railroads....Track is being expanded, modernized and relaid, and once-abandoned rail right-of-ways are being reclaimed. And what you are seeing now is only the beginning. The best is yet to come."

Railroads are the most efficient energy trasportation.

The US will launch a major infrastruture development program.

GWR can and will grow through acquistions due to its strong balance sheet and access to capital at apace that exceeds other railroads.

They are an exceptionally well run companywith a clear and established strategy to grow.

GWR is the dominant short line railroad in the US--and will remain so.

They have an esblished and growing position in servicing and managing ports--a highly lucrative suppliment to their railroad business

They have an international component to their business that makes possible participation in the global economic boom in ways that no other railroad company can act.