Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for week ending March 17, 2019
Daily performance |
Pct on-time arrival |
Overall avg arrival |
Avg arrival if late |
| Monday, March 11 | 38 % |
1 hour, 2 mins late |
1 hour, 40 mins late |
| Tuesday, March 12 | 42 % |
47 mins late |
1 hour, 22 mins late |
| Wednesday, March 13 | 26 % |
1 hour, 1 min late |
1 hour, 23 mins late |
| Thursday, March 14 | 21 % |
2 hours, 50 mins late |
3 hours, 35 mins late |
| Friday, March 15 | 14 % |
2 hours, 44 mins late |
3 hours, 11 mins late |
| Saturday, March 16 | 30 % |
2 hours, 42 mins late |
3 hours, 52 mins late |
| Sunday, March 17 | 53 % |
1 hour, 9 mins late |
2 hours, 27 mins late |
Thirty-two percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending March 17, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived two hours and 35 minutes late. Severe snowstorms and flooding impacted western transcontinental trains during the week.
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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .
Auto Train
California Zephyr
Capitol Limited
Cardinal
Carolinian
City of New Orleans (all trains truncated by flooding)
Coast Starlight
Crescent
Empire Builder
Lake Shore Limited
Maple Leaf
Palmetto
Silver Meteor
Silver Star
Southwest Chief
Sunset Limited
Texas Eagle
Vermonter
COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending March 17, 2019)
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2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train
Pct On Time Arrival
Auto Train 71 %
Maple Leaf 71 %
City of New Orleans 68 %
Vermonter 66 %
Cardinal 46 %
Silver Meteor 45 %
Carolinian 39 %
Southwest Chief 39 %
Palmetto 36 %
Empire Builder 34 %
Lake Shore Limited 34 %
Coast Starlight 31 %
Texas Eagle 27 %
California Zephyr 19 %
Capitol Limited 19 %
Silver Star 19 %
Sunset Limited 16 %
Crescent 2 %
2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train
Overall Average Arrival
Maple Leaf 9 mins late
Vermonter 12 mins late
Auto Train 18 mins late
Silver Meteor 23 mins late
City of New Orleans 24 mins late
Palmetto 24 mins late
Carolinian 26 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 47 mins late
Texas Eagle 58 mins late
Silver Star 1 hour, 5 mins late
Capitol Limited 1 hour, 6 mins late
Southwest Chief 1 hour, 7 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 10 mins late
Coast Starlight 1 hour, 14 mins late
Sunset Limited 1 hour, 53 mins late
Empire Builder 2 hours, 23 mins late
Crescent 2 hours, 56 mins late
California Zephyr 3 hours, 28 mins late
2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival if Late
Train
Average arrival if late
Maple Leaf 30 mins late
Vermonter 36 mins late
Palmetto 38 mins late
Silver Meteor 43 mins late
Carolinian 43 mins late
Auto Train 1 hour, 3 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 1 hour, 12 mins late
City of New Orleans 1 hour, 14 mins late
Texas Eagle 1 hour, 19 mins late
Silver Star 1 hour, 20 mins late
Capitol Limited 1 hour, 21 mins late
Coast Starlight 1 hour, 48 mins late
Southwest Chief 1 hour, 50 mins late
Cardinal 2 hours, 9 mins late
Sunset Limited 2 hours, 15 mins late
Crescent 3 hours late
Empire Builder 3 hours, 38 mins late
California Zephyr 4 hours, 16 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. Data only apply to final destination, not to intermediate stops.
(Trains that are truncated, annulled, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey.)
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