Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Reports Traffic For August 2012

Carload Reporting for Metallic Ores Traffic

Effective January 1, 2012, a portion of GWI’s metallic ores commodity group includes intermodal containers as a result of a change in rail logistics and equipment for a customer in GWI’s Australia Region. The impact of this change increased traffic by 517 carloads in August 2012 and 1,056 carloads in the third quarter of 2012 through August.

Historically, GWI has found that carload information may be indicative of freight revenues on its railroads, but may not be indicative of total revenues, operating expenses, operating income or net income. Car movements related to railcar switching, including activities at port terminals, are excluded from our carload information as the resulting revenues are classified as non-freight.

GWI owns and operates short line and regional freight railroads and provides railcar switching services in the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium. In addition, we operate the Tarcoola to Darwin rail line, which links the Port of Darwin to the Australian interstate rail network in South Australia. Operations currently include 66 railroads organized in 10 regions, with more than 7,600 miles of owned and leased track and approximately 1,400 additional miles under track access arrangements. We provide rail service at 17 ports in North America and Europe and perform contract coal loading and railcar switching for industrial customers.

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The table below sets forth North American carloading information for August 2012 and August 2011:

					August					August
					2012					2011					% Change
North America Operations:
Coal & Coke					17,812					18,110					-1.6%
Pulp & Paper					9,286					8,550					8.6%
Metals					8,175					7,891					3.6%
Lumber & Forest Products					6,415					5,888					9.0%
Minerals & Stone					6,302					7,802					-19.2%
Chemicals & Plastics					5,846					5,309					10.1%
Farm & Food Products					4,426					4,920					-10.0%
Petroleum Products					2,642					2,518					4.9%
Metallic Ores					1,109					804					37.9%
Autos & Auto Parts					1,025					945					8.5%
Intermodal*					307					171					79.5%
Other					3,537					6,062					-41.7%
Total carloads					66,882					68,970					-3.0%
* - Represents intermodal units

The table below sets forth North American carloading information for the third quarter of 2012 through August and the third quarter of 2011 through August:

					QTD Aug					QTD Aug
					2012					2011					% Change
North America Operations:
Coal & Coke					34,895					34,732					0.5%
Pulp & Paper					18,719					16,869					11.0%
Metals					14,477					15,028					-3.7%
Lumber & Forest Products					12,442					11,133					11.8%
Minerals & Stone					11,991					15,127					-20.7%
Chemicals & Plastics					11,492					10,211					12.5%
Farm & Food Products					8,529					9,666					-11.8%
Petroleum Products					5,217					4,984					4.7%
Metallic Ores					2,093					1,545					35.5%
Autos & Auto Parts					1,670					1,690					-1.2%
Intermodal*					735					312					135.6%
Other					7,022					14,064					-50.1%
Total carloads					129,282					135,361					-4.5%
* - Represents intermodal units

The table below sets forth Australian carloading information for August 2012 and August 2011:

					August					August
					2012					2011					% Change
Australian Operations:
Intermodal*					5,326					5,154					3.3%
Minerals & Stone					4,839					5,268					-8.1%
Farm & Food Products					3,194					5,940					-46.2%
Metallic Ores**					2,417					2,003					20.7%
Petroleum Products					28					48					-41.7%
Total carloads					15,804					18,413					-14.2%
* - Represents intermodal units
** - Includes carloads and intermodal units

The table below sets forth Australian carloading information for the third quarter of 2012 through August and the third quarter of 2011 through August:

					QTD Aug					QTD Aug
					2012					2011					% Change
Australian Operations:
Intermodal*					10,832					10,140					6.8%
Minerals & Stone					9,795					10,656					-8.1%
Farm & Food Products					7,918					12,077					-34.4%
Metallic Ores**					5,649					4,250					32.9%
Petroleum Products					68					98					-30.6%
Total carloads					34,262					37,221					-7.9%
* - Represents intermodal units
** - Includes carloads and intermodal units

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