Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, Announces Blalock as General Manager - Intermodal Operations and Rountree as General Manager - Transportation

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, (FEC), today announced the appointment of Wayne Blalock as FEC's General Manager - Intermodal Operations and Tommy Rountree as FEC's General Manager - Transportation.

Previously, Blalock was responsible for FEC's operations in South Florida while Rountree handled FEC's North Florida business. In their new roles, each will have system-wide responsibilities for their respective functions.

Mr. Blalock will be responsible for all FEC intermodal operations including the management of intermodal equipment, all intermodal ramp locations, and FEC Highway Services drayage operations, as well as the company's Hialeah Automobile Unloading Facility.

Mr. Rountree will have responsibility for all of FEC's train operations, including road, yard and terminal functions and all transportation employees, as well as service design.

Both will report to Steve Truitt, who recently joined FEC as Vice President. In addition to Mr. Blalock and Mr. Rountree, Chief Engineer Bob Stevens and Chief Mechanical Officer Bobby Hatfield will comprise the Senior Management team reporting to Mr. Truitt.

About Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, and RailAmerica, Inc

Both FEC and RailAmerica are owned by funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group, a leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $37.8 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2007. RailAmerica is a leading operator of North American regional and shortline railroads. RailAmerica operates 41 railroads in 23 states and 3 Canadian provinces and has information available on developable sites of various sizes on each of the railroads it operates. FEC is a regional freight railroad that extends along a 351-mile corridor between Jacksonville, FL and Miami, FL with exclusive rail access to the Port of Palm Beach, Port Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale) and the Port of Miami. Fortress is headquartered in New York and has affiliates with offices in Dallas, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Rome, San Francisco, San Diego, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. Further information can be found at www.RailAmerica.com, www.feci.com, and www.fortress.com.