Genesee Valley Transportation

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Genesee Valley Transportation is a short-line railroad company based in Batavia, New York with track in Western New York, Northern New York, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Genesee Valley Transportation lines in Pennsylvania and New York states, as depicted on a 2006 GVT system map.

Genesee Valley Transportation (GVT) began in 1985 in Upstate New York marketing rail-related services to both private and public industry throughout the northeast.

During the period from 1989 to date, GVT rail lines have grown from operating, at its beginning 3 miles of trackage, to a system of operating in 2 states with over 300 miles of rail line, a fleet of 28 locomotives, employing over 65 people and operating 8 terminals. GVT's continued growth during the next years is expected to keep the company as one of the premier regional railroads and logistics companies in the northeast.

GVT is privately owned with corporate headquarters located at 8364 Lewiston Road, Batavia, New York 14020-1245 and serves over 125 customers throughout New York State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. GVT's Class I interchange partners are CSX Transportation (MA&N, FRR and DL&W), Norfolk Southern (DL and DL&W) and Canadian Pacific (DL).

During 2004 GVT handled over 10,000 cars with revenues of $6.1M. In early 2002 GVT added its own lumber and commodity transload facility DLWR Reload and Warehouse on the DL&W at Depew, New York.