Genesee and Wyoming News

The region's stocks fell Wednesday with Priceline.com Inc. and Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

The old East Tennessee Railway tracks have received a renewed focus of attention in the past few months in an effort to convert the rails to a walking or biking trail that would connect Johnson City and Elizabethton.

Area stocks rose Monday, led by a group that included ASML NV , which has a manufacturing facility in Wilton, and Genesee & Wyoming, a Greenwich-based freight railroad.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen scored a short line organizing victory today as a majority of workers at the Ohio Central Railroad/ Columbus & Ohio Rail Road Co.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Chief Executive Officer John C. Hellmann will present at the Citi's Investment Research Small/Mid Cap Conference in New York on Friday, Nov.

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TheStreet.com's stock-rating model downgraded Canadian telecommunications provider BCE to "hold." The numbers : Second-quarter net income decreased 5% to $372 million, or 46 cents a share, as revenue declined 2% to $4.3 billion.

International short line operator Genesee & Wyoming earned a profit of $21.7 million in the third quarter, just 2 percent higher than in the same period a year ago.

IEC Electronics Corp. ranked the highest among local companies on this year's Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announces the election of Michael Norkus to its board of directors, effective October 22, 2009.

GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 19, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

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A railroad holding company with operations in Montgomery said its traffic for September and the third quarter fell this year.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are AIG, CIT, Goldman Sachs, J&J, Johnson Controls, Pier 1 and Vanda.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Chief Executive Officer John C. Hellmann will present at the Dahlman Rose & Co.

NEW YORK - Railroad stocks are starting to gather steam, mainly because of growing optimism that the economy is turning up.

Regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. said Friday that traffic on its tracks fell 1.2 percent in July as shipments of pulp and paper and metals both decreased.

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Directors of Genesee and Wyoming Inc., parent company of Huron Central Railway, have agreed to a tentative deal reached yesterday that will keep the local railroad operating until August 14, 2010.