Florida East Coast Industries Inc. Announces Earnings Conference Call; Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001, at 10 a.m. ET - 9 a.m. CT -

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2001

Business Editors

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001

Florida East Coast Industries Inc. (NYSE:FLA) (NYSE:FLA.b) will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter results on Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (9 a.m. Central Time).

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at the Florida East Coast Industries Inc. web site at www.feci.com. The dial-in number for the call is (888) 276-0005. A replay of the call will be available on the company web site and at (800) 475-6701, access code 604279, until November 8, 2001.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network such as America Online's Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments(R) (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook calendar, and to RSVP to events online.

About Florida East Coast Industries Inc.

Florida East Coast Industries Inc., headquartered in St. Augustine, Fla., conducts operations through four wholly owned subsidiaries: Flagler Development Company (Flagler), Florida East Coast Railway L.L.C. (FECR), Florida Express Carriers Inc. (FLX) and EPIK Communications Incorporated (EPIK). Flagler owns, develops, leases and manages approximately 6.7 million square feet of commercial space and owns approximately 16,000 acres of land, all in Florida. FECR is a regional freight railroad that operates 351 miles of main line track, from Jacksonville to Miami. FLX provides truckload service, intermodal drayage and transportation logistics and brokerage services. EPIK, based in Orlando, Fla., is a carriers' carrier that provides bandwidth capacity, dark fiber leases and collocation services to telecommunications providers.