Amtrak Long-Distance Trains
Performance for week ending January 21, 2024
Thirty-five percent of Amtrak's named long-distance trains arrived at their scheduled final destination on time or earlier in the week ending January 21, 2024... The remaining trains, on average, arrived one hour and 41 minutes late.
Just 74 percent of scheduled runs included in this survey operated through from origin to destination this week. Sixty-five of the scheduled 250 runs (26 %) were either canceled or truncated. Issues for most of those trains were from snow and ice storms (but the Crescent was truncated on eight of 14 trips due to planned track maintenance). Only those trains that actually operated their through end-to-end route are included in the presented data.
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This Week's Performance of Individual Trains . . . .
Auto Train
California Zephyr (7 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Capitol Limited
Cardinal
Carolinian
City of New Orleans (4 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Coast Starlight (8 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Crescent (8 of 14 runs truncated)
Empire Builder (all runs canceled)
Lake Shore Limited (4 of 21 runs canceled or truncated)
Maple Leaf (2 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Palmetto
Silver Meteor (2 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Silver Star
Southwest Chief (4 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Sunset Limited
Texas Eagle (5 of 14 runs canceled or truncated)
Vermonter
COMPOSITE - (Long-DistanceTrains, Week Ending January 21, 2024)
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Daily performance
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
Monday, January 15 33 %
1 hour, 45 mins late
2 hours, 37 mins late
Tuesday, January 16 29 %
1 hour, 21 mins late
1 hour, 54 mins late
Wednesday, January 17 22 %
1 hour, 28 mins late
1 hour, 53 mins late
Thursday, January 18 33 %
1 hour, 13 mins late
1 hour, 50 mins late
Friday, January 19 19 %
1 hour late
1 hour, 14 mins late
Saturday, January 20 40 %
42 mins late
1 hour, 11 mins late
Sunday, January 21 61 %
37 mins late
1 hour, 37 mins late
MULTI-WEEK PERFORMANCE:
Week ending . . .
Pct on-time arrival
Overall avg arrival
Avg arrival if late
January 22, 2023 52 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 43 mins late
January 29, 2023 50 %
49 mins late
1 hour, 37 mins late
February 5, 2023 39 %
1 hour, 6 mins late
1 hour, 49 mins late
February 12, 2023 51 %
45 mins late
1 hour, 32 mins late
February 19, 2023 45 %
33 mins late
1 hour late
February 26, 2023 44 %
1 hour late
1 hour, 46 mins late
March 5, 2023 36 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 33 mins late
March 12, 2023 44 %
59 mins late
1 hour, 45 mins 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
* shortened weeks of data
Year-to-Date Standings - Percentage On-Time Arrival
Train |
Pct on-time arrival |
Silver Meteor | 74 % |
City of New Orleans | 68 % |
Sunset Limited | 67 % |
Capitol Limited | 60 % |
Empire Builder | 59 % |
Palmetto | 57 % |
Lake Shore Limited | 56 % |
Auto Train | 55 % |
Silver Star | 55 % |
Texas Eagle | 54 % |
Coast Starlight | 50 % |
Carolinian | 48 % |
Crescent | 45 % |
California Zephyr | 44 % |
.Vermonter | 43 % |
Maple Leaf | 37 % |
Southwest Chief | 31 % |
Cardinal | 28 % |
Year-to-Date Standings - Overall Average Arrival
Train |
Overall avg arrival |
Silver Meteor | 11 mins late |
Auto Train | 17 mins late |
Crescent | 17 mins late |
Maple Leaf | 17 mins late |
Carolinian | 20 mins late |
Vermonter | 25 mins late |
Silver Star | 27 mins late |
City of New Orleans | 34 mins late |
Capitol Limited | 34 mins late |
Palmetto | 36 mins late |
Texas Eagle | 36 mins late |
Sunset Limited | 39 mins late |
Coast Starlight | 44 mins late |
Lake Shore Limited | 56 mins late |
Cardinal | 57 mins late |
Southwest Chief | 1 hour, 27 mins late |
Empire Builder | 1 hour, 31 mins late |
California Zephyr | 2 hours, 44 mins late |
Year-to-Date Standings - Average Arrival When Late
Train
Avg arrival when late
Maple Leaf 27 mins late
Crescent 32 mins late
Auto Train 37 mins late
Carolinian 39 mins late
Palmetto 39 mins late
Vermonter 43 mins late
Silver Meteor 44 mins late
Silver Star 59 mins late
Cardinal 1 hour, 18 mins late
Texas Eagle 1 hour, 19 mins late
Capitol Limited 1 hour, 24 mins late
.Coast Starlight 1 hour, 29 mins late
City of New Orleans 1 hour, 49 mins late
Sunset Limited 1 hour, 57 mins late
Southwest Chief 2 hours, 6 mins late
Lake Shore Limied 2 hours, 7 mins late
Empire Builder 3 hours, 43 mins late
California Zephyr 4 hours, 16 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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