Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for week ending May 14, 2023
Daily performance |
Pct on-time arrival |
Overall avg arrival |
Avg arrival if late |
Monday, May 8 | 59 % |
48 mins late |
1 hour, 57 mins late |
Tuesday, May 9 | 48 % |
55 mins late |
1 hour, 47 mins late |
Wednesday, May 10 | 33 % |
48 mins late |
1 hour, 13 mins late |
Thursday, May 11 | 34 % |
56 mins late |
1 hour, 25 mins late |
Friday, May 12 | 14 % |
1 hour, 47 mins late |
2 hours, 4 mins late |
Saturday, May 13 | 49 % |
26 mins late |
51 mins late |
Sunday, May 14 | 53 % |
1 hour, 36 mins late |
3 hours, 24 mins late |
Forty-one percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending May 14, 2023... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 47 minutes late.
Ninety-seven percent of scheduled runs included in this survey operated through from origin to destination this week. Only those trains that operated their end-to-end route are included in these data.
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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .
Auto Train
California Zephyr
Capitol Limited
Cardinal
Carolinian
City of New Orleans
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 May 14, 2023)
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MULTI-WEEK PERFORMANCE:
Week ending . . .
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
May 15, 2022 29 %
1 hour, 25 mins late
2 hours late
May 22, 2022 21 %
1 hour, 13 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
May 29, 2022 25 %
1 hour, 11 mins late
1 hour, 34 mins late
June 5, 2022 29 %
1 hour, 26 mins late
2 hours late
June 12, 2022 27 %
1 hour, 16 mins late
1 hour, 43 mins late
June 19, 2022 19 %
2 hours, 33 mins late
3 hours, 10 mins late
June 26, 2022 21 %
1 hour, 36 mins late
2 hours, 1 min late
July 3, 2022 27 %
1 hour, 20 mins late
1 hour, 49 mins late
July 10, 2022 27 %
1 hour, 33 mins late
2 hours, 8 mins late
July 17, 2022 21 %
1 hour, 37 mins late
2 hours, 3 mins late
July 24, 2022 14 %
1 hour, 47 mins late
2 hours, 4 mins late
July 31, 2022 22 %
1 hour, 46 mins late
2 hours, 17 mins late
August 7, 2022 17 %
1 hour, 47 mins late
2 hours, 9 mins late
August 14, 2022 28 %
1 hour, 12 mins late
1 hour, 39 mins late
August 21, 2022 31 %
58 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
August 28, 2022 24 %
1 hour, 5 mins late
1 hour, 26 mins late
September 4, 2022 35 %
1 hour, 3 mins late
1 hour, 37 mins late
September 11, 2022 41 %
43 mins late
1 hour, 14 mins late
September 18, 2022 39 %
42 mins late
1 hour, 9 mins late
September 25, 2022 37 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
October 2, 2022 35 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 14 mins late
October 9, 2022 35 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 21 mins late
October 16, 2022 26 %
1 hour, 1 min late
1 hour, 22 mins late
October 23, 2022 36 %
47 mins late
1 hour, 14 mins late
October 30, 2022 39 %
51 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
November 6, 2022 38 %
47 mins late
1 hour, 17 mins late
November 13, 2022 40 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 44 mins late
November 20, 2022 38 %
56 mins late
1 hour, 31 mins late
November 27, 2022 45 %
46 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
December 4, 2022 44 %
47 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
December 11, 2022 52 %
28 mins late
58 mins late
December 18, 2022 53 %
28 mins late
1 hour late
December 25, 2022 43 %
1 hour, 47 mins late
3 hours, 7 mins late
January 1, 2023 46 %
57 mins late
1 hour, 44 mins late
January 8, 2023 54 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 46 mins late
January 15, 2023 54 %
41 mins late
1 hour, 29 mins late
January 22, 2023 52 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 43 mins late
January 29, 2023 50 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 37 mins late
February 5, 2023 39 %
1 hour, 6 mins late
1 hour, 49 mins late
February 12, 2023 51 %
45 mins late
1 hour, 32 mins late
February 19, 2023 45 %
33 mins late
1 hour late
February 26, 2023 44 %
1 hour late
1 hour, 46 mins late
March 5, 2023 36 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
March 12, 2023 44 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 45 mins late
March 19, 2023 45 %
58 mins late
1 hour, 45 mins late
March 26, 2023 32 %
1 hour, 20 mins late
1 hour, 57 mins late
April 2, 2023 31 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 31 mins late
April 9, 2023 37 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 16 mins late
April 16, 2023 39 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 27 mins late
April 23, 2023 42 %
42 mins late
1 hour, 12 mins late
April 30, 2023 43 %
41 mins late
1 hour, 12 mins late
May 7, 2023 40 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 28 mins late
May 14, 2023 41 %
1 hour, 3 mins late
1 hour, 47 mins late
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Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
City of New Orleans | 73 % |
Vermonter | 60 % |
Lake Shore Limited | 59 % |
Capitol Limited | 54 % |
Texas Eagle | 53 % |
Auto Train | 49 % |
Maple Leaf | 45 % |
Palmetto | 43 % |
Carolinian | 42 % |
Silver Meteor | 40 % |
Coast Starlight | 38 % |
Silver Star | 35 % |
Southwest Chief | 35 % |
Sunset Limited | 34 % |
.Empire Builder | 32 % |
Cardinal | 29 % |
Crescent | 24 % |
California Zephyr | 7 % |
Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
Vermonter | 11 mins late |
Maple Leaf | 12 mins late |
Lake Shore Limited | 16 mins late |
Capitol Limited | 23 mins late |
Palmetto | 25 mins late |
Carolinian | 25 mins late |
City of New Orleans | 26 mins late |
Silver Meteor | 37 mins late |
Texas Eagle | 45 mins late |
Auto Train | 49 mins late |
Silver Star | 55 mins late |
Cardinal | 56 mins late |
Sunset Limited | 1 hour, 2 mins late |
Crescent | 1 hour, 11 mins late |
Coast Starlight | 1 hour, 15 mins late |
Southwest Chief | 1 hour, 28 mins late |
Empire Builder | 1 hour, 40 mins late |
California Zephyr | 3 hours, 37 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival When Late
Train
Avg arrival when late
Maple Leaf 22 mins late
Vermonter 28 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 40 mins late
Carolinian 43 mins late
Palmetto 44 mins late
Capitol Limited 50 mins late
Silver Meteor 1 hour, 2 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 20 mins late
Silver Star 1 hour, 24 mins late
Crescent 1 hour, 34 mins late
Sunset Limited 1 hour, 34 mins late
Texas Eagle 1 hour, 35 mins late
Auto Train 1 hour, 36 mins late
City of New Orleans 1 hour, 38 mins late
Coast Starlight 2 hours late
Southwest Chief 2 hours, 14 mins late
Empire Builder 2 hours, 28 mins late
California Zephyr 3 hours, 52 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 Amtrak trains have sufficient padding in their schedule to offset typical en route delays, and it is not necessary to adopt 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. Moreover, no consideration is given to the impact of late departures from originating points impacting subsequent late arrivals at destination, or for any time advanced during that run. Again, calculations refer solely to arrival at final terminal.
(Data apply only 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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