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Genesee & Wyoming to buy RailAmerica

Rail

Monday, July 23, 2012

The two largest owners of shortline railroads in North America have agreed to combine. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said it will purchase RailAmerica for $27.50 per share, for a total of $1.4 billion, plus another $600 million G&W would assume as debt. Jack Hellmann, president and chief executive officer of G&W, said the deal would be “a straightforward combination of two organizations with overlapping holding company structures and complementar...

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