Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for first six months of 2023
Forty-two percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the six-month period January through June, 2023... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 29 minutes late.
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Monthly performance
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
January 2023 52 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 39 mins late
February 2023 44 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 34 mins late
March 2023 38 %
1 hour, 1 min late
1 hour, 39 mins late
April 2023 39 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 20 mins late
May 2023 43 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 26 mins late
June 2023 35 %
53 mins late
1 hour, 21 mins late
Six-Month Period 42 %
52 mins late
1 hour, 29 mins late
Year-to-Date Standings * - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
| City of New Orleans | 77 % |
| Capitol Limited | 57 % |
| Vermonter | 55 % |
| Auto Train | 53 % |
| Lake Shore Limited | 53 % |
| Texas Eagle | 49 % |
| Coast Starlight | 42 % |
| Maple Leaf | 42 % |
| Palmetto | 39 % |
| Silver Meteor | 38 % |
| Carolinian | 36 % |
| Empire Builder | 35 % |
| Silver Star | 34 % |
| Sunset Limited | 33 % |
| .Cardinal | 32 % |
| Southwest Chief | 29 % |
| Crescent | 24 % |
| California Zephyr | 8 % |
Year-to-Date Standings * - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
| Vermonter | 11 mins late |
| Lake Shore Limited | 16 mins late |
| Maple Leaf | 16 mins late |
| Capitol Limited | 20 mins late |
| City of New Orleans | 22 mins late |
| Palmetto | 31 mins late |
| Carolinian | 31 mins late |
| Silver Meteor | 42 mins late |
| Auto Train | 43 mins late |
| Cardinal | 51 mins late |
| Silver Star | 54 mins late |
| Texas Eagle | 57 mins late |
| Coast Starlight | 1 hour, 2 mins late |
| Crescent | 1 hour, 5 mins late |
| Sunset Limited | 1 hour, 6 mins late |
| Empire Builder | 1 hour, 28 mins late |
| Southwest Chief | 1 hour, 36 mins late |
| California Zephyr | 3 hours, 15 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings * - Average Arrival When Late
Train
Avg arrival when late
Vermonter 25 mins late
Maple Leaf 28 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 34 mins late
Capitol Limited 47 mins late
Carolinian 48 mins late
Palmetto 51 mins late
Silver Meteor 1 hour, 7 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 15 mins late
Silver Star 1 hour, 22 mins late
Crescent 1 hour, 25 mins late
Auto Train 1 hour, 31 mins late
.Sunset Limited 1 hour, 37 mins late
City of New Orleans 1 hour, 38 mins late
Coast Starlight 1 hour, 47 mins late
Texas Eagle 1 hour, 51 mins late
Empire Builder 2 hours, 15 mins late
Southwest Chief 2 hours, 16 mins late
California Zephyr 3 hours, 33 mins late
* First half of 2023
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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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