Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for first six months of 2019
Thirty-four percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the six-month period of January through June, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 41 minutes late.
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Monthly performance
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
January 2019 43 %
44 mins late
1 hour, 18 mins late
February 2019 39 %
1 hour, 13 mins late
1 hour, 59 mins late
March 2019 34 %
1 hour, 21 mins late
2 hours, 2 mins late
April 2019 37 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
May 2019 27 %
1 hour, 8 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
June 2019 21 %
1 hour, 24 mins late
1 hour, 47 mins late
Six-Month Period 34 %
1 hour, 7 mins late
1 hour, 41 mins late
Six-Month 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 %
Six-Month 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
Six-Month 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 |
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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 Amtrak 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, originated or terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey.)
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