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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for week ending January 27, 2019

 Daily performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 Monday, January 21

 24 %

 1 hour, 31 mins late

 2 hours late

 Tuesday, January 22

 30 %

 1 hour, 50 mins late

 2 hours, 37 mins late

 Wednesday, January 23

 32 %

 43 mins late

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Thursday, January 24

 45 %

 30 mins late

 54 mins late

 Friday, January 25

 39 %

 46 mins late

 1 hour, 15 mins late

 Saturday, January 26

 46 %

 39 mins late

 1 hour, 12 mins late

 Sunday, January 27

 49 %

 28 mins late

 55 mins late

Thirty-eight percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending January 27, 2019... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 27 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

Coast Starlight

Crescent (excludes runs truncated by trackwork)

Empire Builder

Lake Shore Limited

Maple Leaf

Palmetto (excludes runs truncated by trackwork)

Silver Meteor

Silver Star

Southwest Chief

Sunset Limited

Texas Eagle

Vermonter

 

COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, week ending January 27, 2019)

 

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2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 Auto Train

 76 %

 City of New Orleans

 74 %

 Maple Leaf

 71 %

 Cardinal

 68 %

 Empire Builder

 64 %

 Vermonter

 58 %

 Silver Meteor

 54 %

 Southwest Chief

 54 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 36 %

 Carolinian

 33 %

 Coast Starlight

 33 %

 Palmetto

 33 %

 California Zephyr

 31 %

 Texas Eagle

 30 %

 Silver Star

 25 %

 Capitol Limited

 21 %

 Sunset Limited

 19 %

 Crescent

  0 %

2019 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Cardinal

 6 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 10 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 12 mins late

 Auto Train

 16 mins late

 Empire Builder

 17 mins late

 Vermonter

 18 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 21 mins late

 Palmetto

 22 mins late

 Carolinian

 31 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 35 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 37 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 39 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 4 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 14 mins late

 California Zephyr

 1 hour, 46 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 1 hour, 51 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 18 mins late

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

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Cardinal

 19 mins late

 Palmetto

 33 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 36 mins late

 Vermonter

 42 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 45 mins late

 Empire Builder

 46 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 47 mins late

 Carolinian

 47 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 50 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 58 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 1 hour, 22 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 24 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 30 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 38 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 17 mins late

 Crescent

 2 hours, 18 mins late

 California Zephyr

 2 hours, 33 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 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, shortened, annulled, terminated en route, or reported with incomplete or ambiguous data are generally excluded from the survey.)

 

 

 

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