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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending January 13, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, January 7

 59 %

 23 mins late

 56 mins late

 Tuesday, January 8

 61 %

 18 mins late

 46 mins late

 Wednesday, January 9

 50 %

 36 mins late

 1 hour, 12 mins late

 Thursday, January 10

 58 %

 32 mins late

 1 hour, 16 mins late

 Friday, January 11

 44 %

 33 mins late

 1 hour late

 Saturday, January 12

 57 %

  22 mins late

 51 mins late

 Sunday, January 13

 26 %

  52 mins late

 1 hour, 10 mins late

Fifty percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending January 13, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and three minutes late.

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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .

Auto Train

California Zephyr

Capitol Limited

Cardinal

Carolinian

City of New Orleans

Coast Starlight

Crescent (excludes shortened runs Mondays-Thursdays)

Empire Builder

Lake Shore Limited

Maple Leaf

Palmetto

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending January 13, 2019)

 

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2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 Auto Train

 85 %

 Maple Leaf

 85 %

 City of New Orleans

 73 %

 Vermonter

 73 %

 Cardinal

 70 %

 Empire Builder

 66 %

 Silver Meteor

 54 %

 Southwest Chief

 50 %

 California Zephyr

 46 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 46 %

 Palmetto

 35 %

 Texas Eagle

 32 %

 Capitol Limited

 31 %

 Carolinian

 27 %

 Coast Starlight

 27 %

 Silver Star

 27 %

 Sunset Limited

 18 %

 Crescent

 0 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

 2 mins late

 Cardinal

 3 mins late

 Auto Train

 5 mins late

 Vermonter

 6 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 7 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 13 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 14 mins late

 Palmetto

 20 mins late

 Empire Builder

 21 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 24 mins late

 Carolinian

 32 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 33 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 37 mins late

 California Zephyr

 39 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 22 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 36 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 39 mins late

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival if Late

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Cardinal

 9 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 13 mins late

 Vermonter

 21 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 24 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 26 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 29 mins late

 Palmetto

 31 mins late

 Auto Train

 32 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 35 mins late

 Carolinian

 44 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 48 mins late

 Empire Builder

 1 hour late

 California Zephyr

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 41 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 52 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 39 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 3 hours, 10 mins late

 

ABOUT THESE REPORTS:

The Bull Sheet calculates arrival performance at final destination of Amtrak's named long-distance trains. The data are based upon the reported arrival times of each of the affected trains, and there is no grace allowance for minimal lateness. If a train arrives at its final terminal behind schedule, even by a minute, it is considered 'late.' The Bull Sheet considers that long-distance trains have sufficient padding in their schedule to offset typical en route delays, and it is not necessary to apply a grace allowance on top of that padding to bolster on time reporting. Accordingly, these reports offer a more realistic analysis than what is reported by Amtrak.

(Trains that are truncated, shortened, annulled, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are typically excluded from the survey.)