The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was a flagship

short-line railroad :''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.'' A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that opera ...

owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. The G&W Railroad was the small Western NY salt-hauling railroad that ran between

Retsof, New York Retsof is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of York in Livingston County, New York, United States. The community, situated southwest of the city of Rochester, is off New York State Route 63 approximately one mile east o ...

, and

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, only long, and began in 1899. It was the first railroad in today's global G&W corporation "family" of shortlines all over the world. "G&W Orange", that began on the G&W railroad, can today be seen on railroads all over the world. The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad was absorbed into the

Rochester and Southern Railroad The Rochester and Southern Railroad , a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., is a class III shortline that runs from the city of Rochester in Monroe County to Silver Springs, NY. The RSR started in 1986, when the B&O sold off its Buffalo a ...

system in 2003, but still exists as a

non-operating subsidiary In the United States, a paper railroad is a company in the railroad business that exists "on paper only": as a legal entity which does not own any track, locomotives, or rolling stock. In the early days of railroad construction, paper railroads h ...

of Genesee & Wyoming. Genesee Street and Wyoming Street in the

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, the former site of the

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are named for the railroad.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Genesee Wyoming Railroad New York (state) railroads Railway companies established in 1899 Genesee & Wyoming Non-operating common carrier freight railroads in the United States 1899 establishments in New York (state)