Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for week ending March 17, 2024
Forty-six percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending March 17, 2024... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 11 minutes late.
Ninety-nine percent of scheduled runs included in this survey operated through from origin to destination this week. Only those runs (248 of 250) that actually operated their through end-to-end route are presented in the data.
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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .
Auto Train .
California Zephyr (2 of 14 runs truncated)
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 March 17, 2024)
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Daily performance
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
Monday, March 11 47 %
33 mins late
1 hour, 3 mins late
Tuesday, March 12 54 %
22 mins late
48 mins late
Wednesday, March 13 47 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 30 mins late
Thursday, March 14 49 %
25 mins late
50 mins late
Friday, March 15 40 %
47 mins late
1 hour, 19 mins late
Saturday, March 16 31 %
1 hour, 10 mins late
1 hour, 42 mins late
Sunday, March 17 53 %
24 mins late
50 mins late
MULTI-WEEK PERFORMANCE:
Week ending . . .
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if 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
May 21, 2023 42 %
54 mins late
1 hour, 32 mins late
May 28, 2023 47 %
35 mins late
1 hour, 7 mins late
June 4, 2023 44 %
39 mins late
1 hour, 10 mins late
June 11, 2023 33 %
52 mins late
1 hour, 17 mins late
June 18, 2023 38 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 36 mins late
June 25, 2023 34 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 17 mins late
July 2, 2023 29 %
57 mins late
1 hour, 21 mins late
July 9, 2023 36 %
1 hour, 4 mins late
1 hour, 40 mins late
July 16, 2023 35 %
1 hour, 5 mins late
1 hour, 40 mins late
July 23, 2023 34 %
1 hour, 19 mins late
2 hours late
July 30, 2023 25 %
1 hour, 29 mins late
1 hour, 59 mins late
August 6, 2023 32 %
1 hour, 14 mins late
1 hour, 48 mins late
August 13, 2023 30 %
1 hour, 7 mins late
1 hour, 36 mins late
August 20, 2023 33 %
1 hour, 7 mins late
1 hour, 40 mins late
August 27, 2023 38 %
44 mins late
1 hour, 10 mins late
September 3, 2023 38 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 22 mins late
September 10, 2023 42 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 23 mins late
September 17, 2023 40 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 5 mins late
September 24, 2023 49 %
39 mins late
1 hour, 17 mins late
October 1, 2023 47 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 29 mins late
October 8, 2023 55 %
35 mins late
1 hour, 16 mins late
October 15, 2023 51 %
41 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
October 22, 2023 47 %
36 mins late
1 hour, 7 mins late
October 29, 2023 47 %
42 mins late
1 hour, 19 mins late
November 5, 2023 * 45 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 9 mins late
November 12, 2023 * 48 %
31 mins late
1 hour late
November 19, 2023 42 %
31 mins late
53 mins late
November 26, 2023 55 %
22 mins late
48 mins late
December 3, 2023 47 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
December 10, 2023 56 %
23 mins late
52 mins late
December 17, 2023 56 %
23 mins late
54 mins late
December 24, 2023 51 %
30 mins late
1 hour, 2 mins late
December 31, 2023 62 %
22 mins late
57 mins late
January 7, 2024 70 %
13 mins late
44 mins late
January 14, 2024 60 %
32 mins late
1 hour, 19 mins late
January 21, 2024 35 %
1 hour, 7 mins late
1 hour, 41 mins late
January 28, 2024 51 %
35 mins late
1 hour, 12 mins late
February 4, 2024 48 %
34 mins late
1 hour, 6 mins late
February 11, 2024 50 %
42 mins late
1 hour, 25 mins late
February 18, 2024 45 %
35 mins late
1 hour, 4 mins late
February 25, 2024 55 %
27 mins late
1 hour late
March 3, 2024 53 %
31 mins late
1 hour, 6 mins late
March 10, 2024 58 %
25 mins late
59 mins late
March 17, 2024 46 %
38 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
* shortened weeks of data
Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
| City of New Orleans | 82 % |
| Lake Shore Limited | 67 % |
| Texas Eagle | 67 % |
| Sunset Limited | 62 % |
| Capitol Limited | 60 % |
| Auto Train | 57 % |
| Vermonter | 54 % |
| Empire Builder | 51 % |
| Palmetto | 50 % |
| Silver Meteor | 48 % |
| Maple Leaf | 46 % |
| Coast Starlight | 44 % |
| Crescent | 44 % |
| Silver Star | 41 % |
| .California Zephyr | 36 % |
| Carolinian | 36 % |
| Cardinal | 35 % |
| Southwest Chief | 24 % |
Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
| Maple Leaf | 10 mins late |
| Vermonter | 11 mins late |
| City of New Orleans | 15 mins late |
| Auto Train | 16 mins late |
| Palmetto | 20 mins late |
| Texas Eagle | 21 mins late |
| Capitol Limited | 21 mins late |
| Lake Shore Limited | 22 mins late |
| Carolinian | 26 mins late |
| Silver Meteor | 29 mins late |
| Crescent | 31 mins late |
| Sunset Limited | 43 mins late |
| Silver Star | 45 mins late |
| Cardinal | 47 mins late |
| Empire Builder | 51 mins late |
| Coast Starlight | 54 mins late |
| Southwest Chief | 1 hour, 40 mins late |
| California Zephyr | 1 hour, 49 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival When Late
Train
Avg arrival when late
Maple Leaf 18 mins late
Vermonter 24 mins late
Auto Train 38 mins late
Palmetto 40 mins late
Carolinian 41 mins late
Capitol Limited 52 mins late
Silver Meteor 55 mins late
Crescent 55 mins late
Texas Eagle 1 hour, 2 mins late
Lake Shore Limited 1 hour, 8 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 12 mins late
.Silver Star 1 hour, 16 mins late
City of New Orleans 1 hour, 26 mins late
Coast Starlight 1 hour, 37 mins late
Empire Builder 1 hour, 43 mins late
Sunset Limited 1 hour, 55 mins late
Southwest Chief 2 hours, 13 mins late
California Zephyr 2 hours, 51 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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