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Amtrak Long-Distance Trains

Performance for first six months of 2020

 

Fifty-eight percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the six-month period of January through June, 2020... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 13 minutes late.

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 Monthly performance

 Pct on-time arrival

 Overall avg arrival

 Avg arrival if late

 January 2020

 58 %

 30 mins late

 1 hour, 10 mins late

 February 2020

 48 %

 44 mins late

 1 hour, 26 mins late

 March 2020

 54 %

 37 mins late

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 April 2020

 68 %

 20 mins late

 1 hour late

 May 2020

 65 %

 25 mins late

 1 hour, 11 mins late

 June 2020

 58 %

 29 mins late

 1 hour, 9 mins late

 Six-Month Period

 58 %

 31 mins late

 1 hour, 13 mins late

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2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival

 Train

 Pct On Time Arrival

 City of New Orleans

 89 %

 Maple Leaf

 78 %

 Empire Builder

 69 %

 Coast Starlight

 68 %

 Southwest Chief

 68 %

 Vermonter

 67 %

 California Zephyr

 65 %

 Auto Train

 61 %

 Carolinian

 60 %

 Silver Meteor

 60 %

 Silver Star

 60 %

 Lake Shore Limited

 56 %

 Cardinal

 55 %

 Capitol Limited

 44 %

 Texas Eagle

 44 %

 Palmetto

 42 %

 Sunset Limited

  30 %

 Crescent

  25 %

2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival

 Train

 Overall Average Arrival

 Maple Leaf

 3 mins late

 Vermonter

 4 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 9 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 17 mins late

 Carolinian

 18 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 20 mins late

 Palmetto

 23 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 25 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 27 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 28 mins late

 Silver Star

 28 mins late

 Empire Builder

 30 mins late

 Auto Train

 30 mins late

 Cardinal

 37 mins late

 California Zephyr

 43 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 45 mins late

 Crescent

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 1 hour, 37 mins late

2020 Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival if Late

 Train

 Average arrival if late

 Vermonter

 12 mins late

 Maple Leaf

 14 mins late

 Lake Shore Limited

 39 mins late

 Palmetto

 40 mins late

 Capitol Limited

 45 mins late

 Carolinian

 46 mins late

 Coast Starlight

 1 hour, 3 mins late

 Silver Meteor

 1 hour, 8 mins late

 Silver Star

 1 hour, 10 mins late

 Auto Train

 1 hour, 18 mins late

 Texas Eagle

 1 hour, 21 mins late

 City of New Orleans

 1 hour, 23 mins late

 Cardinal

 1 hour, 23 mins late

 Southwest Chief

 1 hour, 27 mins late

 Empire Builder

 1 hour, 37 mins late

 Crescent

 1 hour, 44 mins late

 California Zephyr

 2 hours, 5 mins late

 Sunset Limited

 2 hours, 17 mins late

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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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