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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for June 2019

Twenty-one percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in June 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 47 minutes late.

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Saturday, June 1

31 %

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 1 hour, 39 mins late

 Sunday, June 2

 20 %

 1 hour, 6 mins late

 1 hour, 22 mins late

 Monday, June 3

 19 %

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 1 hour, 47 mins late

 Tuesday, June 4

 27 %

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 2 hours, 4 mins late

 Wednesday, June 5

 19 %

 1 hour, 29 mins late

 1 hour, 50 mins late

 Thursday, June 6

 23 %

 1 hour, 6 mins late

 1 hour, 26 mins late

 Friday, June 7

 31 %

 2 hours, 21 mins late

 3 hours, 26 mins late

 Saturday, June 8

19 %

 1 hour, 45 mins late

 2 hours, 10 mins late

 Sunday, June 9

 30 %

 1 hour, 45 mins late

 2 hours, 31 mins late

 Monday, June 10

 12 %

 1 hour, 58 mins late

 2 hours, 14 mins late

 Tuesday, June 11

 41 %

 1 hour, 9 mins late

 1 hour, 56 mins late

 Wednesday, June 12

 16 %

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 1 hour, 36 mins late

 Thursday, June 13

 28 %

 46 mins late

 1 hour, 4 mins late

 Friday, June 14

 26 %

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 1 hour, 53 mins late

 Saturday, June 15

24 %

 58 mins late

 1 hour, 16 mins late

 Sunday, June 16

 36 %

 51 mins late

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Monday, June 17

 27 %

 45 mins late

 1 hour, 1 min late

 Tuesday, June 18

 25 %

 1 hour, 9 mins late

 1 hour, 32 mins late

 Wednesday, June 19

 12 %

 1 hour, 23 mins late

 1 hour, 34 mins late

 Thursday, June 20

 3 %

 1 hour, 34 mins late

 1 hour, 37 mins late

 Friday, June 21

  9 %

 2 hours, 44 mins late

 3 hours late

 Saturday, June 22

24 %

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 1 hour, 55 mins late

 Sunday, June 23

24 %

 1 hour, 1 min late

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Monday, June 24

 18 %

 1 hour, 33 mins late

 1 hour, 53 mins late

 Tuesday, June 25

 34 %

 52 mins late

 1 hour, 19 mins late

 Wednesday, June 26

 12 %

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 Thursday, June 27

 13 %

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 1 hour, 44 mins late

 Friday, June 28

 11 %

 1 hour, 30 mins late

 1 hour, 42 mins late

 Saturday, June 29

6 %

 1 hour, 26 mins late

 1 hour, 32 mins late

 Sunday, June 30

15 %

 1 hour, 43 mins late

 2 hours, 2 mins late

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 Month of June 2019

 21 %

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 1 hour, 47 mins late

 Month of June 2018

 19 %

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 1 hour, 47 mins late

 Month of June 2017

 20 %

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 1 hour, 32 mins late

 Month of June 2016

 29 %

 1 hour, 2 mins late

 1 hour, 26 mins late

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June 2019 Performance of Individual Trains . . . .

Auto Train

California Zephyr

Capitol Limited

Cardinal

Carolinian

City of New Orleans (all runs 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, June 2019)

 

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

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 City of New Orleans

 70 %

 Maple Leaf

 68 %

 Auto Train

 59 %

 Vermonter

 52 %

 Empire Builder

 40 %

 Coast Starlight

 37 %

 Carolinian

 36 %

 Silver Meteor

 34 %

 Palmetto

 33 %

 Cardinal

 31 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 31 %

 Southwest Chief

 30 %

 Capitol Limited

 18 %

 California Zephyr

 17 %

 Texas Eagle

 15 %

 Silver Star

 14 %

 Sunset Limited

  13 %

 Crescent

  3 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

  8 mins late

 Vermonter

 12 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 26 mins late

 Carolinian

 31 mins late

 Auto Train

 33 mins late

 Palmetto

 34 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 47 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 49 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 55 mins late

 Cardinal

 56 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 9 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 Empire Builder

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 46 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 12 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 29 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 15 mins late

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

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Maple Leaf

 24 mins late

 Vermonter

 25 mins late

 Carolinian

 48 mins late

 Palmetto

 50 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 12 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 1 hour, 12 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 25 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 51 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 2 hours, 5 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 17 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours, 31 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 51 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 55 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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