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Performance for week ending July 21, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, July 15

 23 %

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 1 hour, 46 mins late

 Tuesday, July 16

 17 %

 2 hours late

 2 hours, 24 mins late

 Wednesday, July 17

 18 %

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 1 hour, 36 mins late

 Thursday, July 18

 12 %

 1 hour, 44 mins late

 1 hour, 58 mins late

 Friday, July 19

 9 %

 2 hours, 6 mins late

 2 hours, 18 mins late

 Saturday, July 20

19 %

 2 hours, 3 mins late

 2 hours, 31 mins late

 Sunday, July 21

15 %

 1 hour, 46 mins late

 2 hours, 4 mins late

Sixteen (16) percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending July 21, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived two hours and six 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 (all runs truncated by flooding)

Coast Starlight

Crescent (excludes runs truncated by flooding)

Empire Builder

Lake Shore Limited

Maple Leaf

Palmetto

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited (excludes runs truncated by flooding)

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending July 21, 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

 65 %

 Auto Train

 57 %

 Vermonter

 49 %

 Coast Starlight

 39 %

 Empire Builder

 36 %

 Carolinian

 33 %

 Silver Meteor

 31 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 30 %

 Cardinal

 29 %

 Palmetto

 28 %

 Southwest Chief

 27 %

 Capitol Limited

 18 %

 California Zephyr

 15 %

 Texas Eagle

 15 %

 Silver Star

 13 %

 Sunset Limited

  12 %

 Crescent

  4 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

  9 mins late

 Vermonter

 13 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 26 mins late

 Auto Train

 33 mins late

 Carolinian

 35 mins late

 Palmetto

 39 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 51 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 52 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 52 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 Empire Builder

 1 hour, 29 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 32 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 51 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 9 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 33 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 21 mins late

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

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Vermonter

 26 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 27 mins late

 Carolinian

 52 mins late

 Palmetto

 54 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 25 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 29 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 29 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 2 hours, 6 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 2 hours, 11 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 15 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours, 21 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 54 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 57 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.' Trains must arrive on time or earlier to be considered arriving 'on time.' 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, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are excluded from the survey.)

 

 

 

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