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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending August 4, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, July 29

 22 %

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 1 hour, 36 mins late

 Tuesday, July 30

 19 %

 1 hour, 6 mins late

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 Wednesday, July 31

 24 %

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 2 hours late

 Thursday, August 1

 21 %

 1 hour, 25 mins late

 1 hour, 48 mins late

 Friday, August 2

 19 %

 1 hour, 28 mins late

 1 hour, 48 mins late

 Saturday, August 3

37 %

 51 mins late

 1 hour, 22 mins late

 Sunday, August 4

31 %

 53 mins late

 1 hour, 18 mins late

Twenty-five percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending August 4, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 37 minutes late.

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

Auto Train

California Zephyr

Capitol Limited

Cardinal

Carolinian (excludes runs truncated by track work)

City of New Orleans (excludes 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, week ending August 4, 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

 48 %

 Coast Starlight

 39 %

 Empire Builder

 36 %

 Carolinian

 32 %

 Silver Meteor

 30 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 29 %

 Cardinal

 27 %

 Palmetto

 27 %

 Southwest Chief

 25 %

 Capitol Limited

 17 %

 Texas Eagle

 16 %

 California Zephyr

 14 %

 Silver Star

 12 %

 Sunset Limited

  11 %

 Crescent

  4 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

 10 mins late

 Vermonter

 13 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 25 mins late

 Auto Train

 34 mins late

 Carolinian

 35 mins late

 Palmetto

 40 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 52 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 53 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 54 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 20 mins late

 Empire Builder

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 42 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 49 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 10 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 37 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 24 mins late

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

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Vermonter

 25 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 28 mins late

 Carolinian

 52 mins late

 Palmetto

 55 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 1 hour, 13 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 17 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 30 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 2 hours, 10 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 15 mins late

 Empire Builder

 2 hours, 16 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 2 hours, 16 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 56 mins late

 California Zephyr

 3 hours, 58 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, and do not account for any time gained or lost en route if the train departed its originating station behind schedule.)

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

 

 

 

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