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Genesee & Wyoming acquires RailAmerica, Patriot Rail Corp. reaches deal to sell

August 2nd, 2012

Genesee & Wyoming is acquiring RailAmerica, which operates the Dallas, Garland & Northeastern, seen here at Dallas’s Union Station. – Cowcatcher Magazine

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Two of the rail industry’s larger regional and short line railroads are getting new owners.

RailAmerica announced in July that it had entered an agreement to sell to Genesee & Wyoming, and Patriot Rail Corp. was acquired in June by a San Francisco-based investment and asset management services company.

GWI is acquiring RailAmerica for an all-cash purchase price of $27.50 per share. GWI’s acquisition of RailAmerica will combine the two largest short line and regional rail operators in North America, strengthening GWI’s ability to serve its industrial customers and Class I railroad partners. GWI expects to fund the transaction and the simultaneous refinancing of its existing debt with approximately $2.0 billion of new debt and approximately $800 million of equity or equity-linked securities.

RailAmerica operates 45 railroads in 28 states and three Canadian provinces with approximately 7,500 miles of track. Among its affiliates are the Kiamichi Railroad; Chicago, Fort Wayne & Easter; Bauxite & Northern Railway; Dallas, Garland & Northeastern; Kyle Railroad; Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad; and Texas Northeastern Railroad.

SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners will acquire 100 percent of Patriot Rail’s stock through its dedicated infrastructure investment vehicle SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund North America LP.  The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the effectiveness of the control notice of exemption filed with the Surface Transportation Board.

Patriot is a leading operator of short line and regional freight railroads in the United States.  The Company operates the Louisiana & Northwest Railroad, Temple & Central Texas Railway, DeQueen & Eastern Railroad and Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad, as well as seven others that traverse 500 total rail miles across 13 states.

As part of the transaction, Patriot’s founder, Chairman, President and CEO, Gary O. Marino, will retire from these positions upon closing and provide consultancy services to Patriot’s management and its board.  Marino, who formed Patriot in 2006, was the co-founder and former Chairman, President and CEO of RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE: RA).

John Fenton will become Patriot’s new CEO upon consummation of the sale.  Fenton is a career railroader and, most recently, has served as CEO of MetroLink, Southern California’s commuter rail public agency that manages a 512-mile system across six counties, including Los Angeles, and operates 162 daily trains.

 

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