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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