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You were lucky.  From August 1, 2007, through November 23, 2007, Number 21 was late, on average, by 52 minutes in Dallas and 78 minutes in San Antonio.  Number 22 was late, on average, by 70 minutes at Dallas and 51 minutes at Texarkana.Number 21 was on time 27 per cent of the time at Dallas and 10 per cent of the time at San Antonio.  Number 22 was on time one per cent of the time at Dallas and 12 per cent at Texarkana.  Number 21 was more than 60 minutes late, on average, for 24 per cent of the Dallas late arrivals and 40 per cent of the San Antonio late arrivals.  Of the late arrivals for Number 22 in Dallas and Texarkana, 39 per cent and 27 per cent were more than 60 minutes late.   The schedules are heavily padded.  For example, No 21 gets 5 hours and 12 minutes to run the 155 miles from Temple, Texas to San Antonio.  Number 22 gets 4 hours and 25 minutes to cover the same distance on its northbound run.  It takes the Eagle 10 hours and 25 minutes, assuming it is running on time, to get from Dallas to San Antonio.  Greyhound, by contrast, runs it off in approximately 5 hours.The late arrival averages for the Sunset Limited - Numbers 1 and 2 - at Houston, El Paso, and San Antonio are even worse.     NARP claims that the long distance passenger train is an essential element in our national transportation equation.  Given the padded schedules, miserable on-time performance records, and one a day train schedules for most long distance routes, I don't know how they can make the claim with a straight face.
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