Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for week ending December 18, 2022
Daily performance |
Pct on-time arrival |
Overall avg arrival |
Avg arrival if late |
| Monday, December 12 | 64 % |
14 mins late |
39 mins late |
| Tuesday, December 13 | 60 % |
35 mins late |
1 hour, 28 mins late |
| Wednesday, December 14 | 56 % |
21 mins late |
48 mins late |
| Thursday, December 15 | 54 % |
31 mins late |
1 hour, 9 mins late |
| Friday, December 16 | 38 % |
40 mins late |
1 hour, 5 mins late |
| Saturday, December 17 | 51 % |
18 mins late |
36 mins late |
| Sunday, December 18 | 46 % |
39 mins late |
1 hour, 12 mins late |
Fifty-three percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending December 18, 2022... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour late.
Only those trains that ran their full scheduled end-to-end route are calculated in this survey.
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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 December 18, 2022)
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MULTI-WEEK PERFORMANCE:
Week ending . . .
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
December 19, 2021 32 %
1 hour, 3 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
December 26, 2021 38 %
1 hour, 6 mins late
1 hour, 36 mins late
January 2, 2022 41 %
1 hour, 17 mins late
2 hours, 11 mins late
January 9, 2022 31 %
1 hour, 56 mins late
2 hours, 47 mins late
January 16, 2022 51 %
31 mins late
1 hour, 3 mins late
January 23, 2022 47 %
45 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
January 30, 2022 43 %
48 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
February 6, 2022 47 %
37 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
February 13, 2022 48 %
44 mins late
1 hour, 24 mins late
February 20, 2022 46 %
50 mins late
1 hour, 32 mins late
February 27, 2022 42 %
55 mins late
1 hour, 35 mins late
March 6, 2022 41 %
46 mins late
1 hour, 18 mins late
March 13, 2022 30 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 28 mins late
March 20, 2022 33 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 28 mins late
March 27, 2022 31 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 26 mins late
April 3, 2022 27 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 21 mins late
April 10, 2022 28 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 26 mins late
April 17, 2022 29 %
1 hour late
1 hour, 25 mins late
April 24, 2022 30 %
1 hour, 2 mins late
1 hour, 29 mins late
May 1, 2022 34 %
51 mins late
1 hour, 18 mins late
May 8, 2022 28 %
1 hour, 14 mins late
1 hour, 43 mins 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
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Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
| City of New Orleans | 61 % |
| Silver Meteor | 55 % |
| Empire Builder | 43 % |
| Maple Leaf | 43 % |
| Coast Starlight | 43 % |
| Carolinian | 40 % |
| Lake Shore Limited | 38 % |
| Palmetto | 37 % |
| Auto Train | 34 % |
| Vermonter | 34 % |
| Crescent | 33 % |
| Texas Eagle | 33 % |
| Capitol Limited | 28 % |
| Cardinal | 25 % |
| .Southwest Chief | 20 % |
| Silver Star | 17 % |
| Sunset Limited | 16 % |
| California Zephyr | 13 % |
Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
| Maple Leaf | 15 mins late |
| Vermonter | 20 mins late |
| Carolinian | 24 mins late |
| Palmetto | 27 mins late |
| City of New Orleans | 29 mins late |
| Lake Shore Limited | 32 mins late |
| Silver Meteor | 34 mins late |
| Coast Starlight | 52 mins late |
| Cardinal | 59 mins late |
| Capitol Limited | 1 hour late |
| Crescent | 1 hour, 3 mins late |
| Auto Train | 1 hour, 5 mins late |
| Texas Eagle | 1 hour, 15 mins late |
| Empire Builder | 1 hour, 19 mins late |
| Silver Star | 1 hour, 35 mins late |
| Southwest Chief | 2 hours, 1 min late |
| Sunset Limited | 2 hours, 36 mins late |
| California Zephyr | 2 hours, 50 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival When Late
Train |
Avg arrival when late |
| Maple Leaf | 27 mins late |
| Vermonter | 30 mins late |
| Carolinian | 40 mins late |
| Palmetto | 43 mins late |
| Lake Shore Limited | 51 mins late |
| City of New Orleans | 1 hour, 12 mins late |
| Silver Meteor | 1 hour, 14 mins late |
| Cardinal | 1 hour, 18 mins late |
| Capitol Limited | 1 hour, 22 mins late |
| Coast Starlight | 1 hour, 30 mins late |
| Crescent | 1 hour, 34 mins late |
| Auto Train | 1 hour, 39 mins late |
| Texas Eagle | 1 hour, 51 mins late |
| Silver Star | 1 hour, 55 mins late |
| Empire Builder | 2 hours, 18 mins late |
| Southwest Chief | 2 hours, 31 mins late |
| Sunset Limited | 3 hours, 6 mins late |
| California Zephyr | 3 hours, 15 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. Moreover, no consideration is given to the impact of late departures from origin points impacting subsuquent late arrivals at destination, or for any time advanced during the 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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