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Apr 2010 Amtrak stats

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Apr 2010 Amtrak stats
Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, June 6, 2010 11:50 PM

Apr 2010 Amtrak Stats are now available

As usual most comparisons will be FY 2010 first vs. FY 2009.

Revenues up $17M over budget

Expenses $10M over budget however $2M of those expenses were for much higher On Time trains. More on this later.  YTD Rev $62.3M up 4.9% Exp $78M up including $17.4 for better OT. Month net loss $6.1M.  Net loss for FY $15.4M less at $58.6M.

Regular budget capital spending is still under budget by 2.5M for month and FY 116.4M. Very few projects are ahead of spending. FY 2010 forecast is 122.3M less than budget?. The reason may be delays in progress payments? Ahead of schedule exceptions are the 60Hz signal backup for NH – BOS the rebuilding of the Safe Harbor – Atglen 138KV transmission lines, and the track laying machine tie replacements ($16.5M over and projected FY over $31.1M). No breakdown of FY ARRA projects but they are also behind $122.3M.

Train miles were up slightly at 2% but there was 1 less Friday in 2009 however the NH – BOS 2010 shutdown in Apr also reduced train miles. Available seat miles were up 4% so there were some longer trains this year. Locos out of service 16.6% 1.1% worse that 09 however some longer trains may have contributed. Pass fleet 11.4% OOS 2.5% better than 09. (Maybe overhauls are helping reliability but will look for trends later this year)(Note overhauls costing more than budget see below). Again Diesel Gallons per mile 2.4 vs. 2.3 budget and 2.2 in 2009. Still feel that is a meaningless number since the average train is longer.  

Passenger miles up at 519,946K for a 9.7% increase. Also an average passenger trip up 13 miles. Pass up 50M from last year but slightly below Mar 2010 record by 28,000 but would have been higher Mar except for loss of approximately 42,000 riders due to closure of NH – BOS.

Segments            Revenue              riders                    comments

Total                     +12.9%                 +7.9%   

Acela                    +13..4                   +10.5                    remember NH-BOS but north end trends much better

NEC Regional     +7.7                      +1.6                      NH-BOS

Short Dist            +19.5                    +10.4                    longer dist per pass

Long Dist             +12.9                    +9.2                      same

Whole FY all items up. MAR – Apr approaching Jul – Aug numbers for 2009. OTP worse for Feb – APR than 2009.  Now for short dist rout summaries.

Lynchburg           $712K                   11,973                  no avoidable loss. pass 178% o

 

 

ver budget Rev +190%

Newport News   2354K                   43,129                  Only route better than Lynchburg/train

Carolinian            1508K                   27,787                  Includes NEC only trips as well and 2 above do not

                              +76%                    +49%                   

San Joaquin         rev per train lower.  pass higher than Lynch

Blue water          rev lower                            pass higher than Lynchburgh

Pennsylvanian    rev lower                            pass higher

Most improved SD from 2009 were Carolinian rev +75% pass +49% and Piedmont Rev +34% Pass +26%. Only SD in minus column was Capitol Corridor at -0.5%. but pass up 1.8%. Lowest was the DownEaster at +1.5% Pass probably due to flood shutdowns.

Long distance

Empire Build       +34.1%                 +24.5%

Palmetto             +48.2                    +8.3                      Avg Pass traveled a lot further like Carolinian

Cardinal               -1.2%                    +0.5%                   One less Friday

Auto Train           -5.2                       -2.7

A startling number I came up with is the Long Distance trains south towards Florida carry 27.9% of all long distance passengers. Factor in the Carolinian and Newport news and the figure would go to 38%.Revenue would be 36% and 32 % respectively. It appears to this poster that maybe more emphasis needs to be placed on improving Florida service.

Sleepers

Empire                 Rev +50%            +42.3% Pass        Another sleeper?

Only sleeper riders not in double digit % increases were Cardinal -1.5, Meteor +5.4, Auto Train – 1.0%.

Overhauls and regular repairs:

Type                     April                      FY projections

Amfleet                $16.5M                $33.6M

Superliners          8.9                        33.6

Horizon                2.7                        6.9

Viewliners           2.2                        4.4

Acela                    4.6                        18.7

Totals                   $35.1M                $94.9M

Locos                                                 $8.6M

Rolling stock outputs all kinds of work

Type                     plan       actual    YTD plan]YTD A  Over Budget

Amfleet                11           14           82           91           $31,197K

ARRA Am             4             2             16           11

Super                    11           14           68           58           33,680

Horizon                2             1             13           13           6905

Surfliners             0             0             1             1

Viewliners           1             2             7             9             4438

Heritage              0             0             2             4             -251

LD ARRA              2             0             8             5

Sanford  SL          0             1             0             10

Acelas                                                                              18754

Totals                   31           34           199        202        175,864K             Includes some other items

Total rolling stock costs                                               $307M

P-40 ARRA           2             2             7             2             8609

Electric                 2             1             14           7

On Time Performances

The best was the Coast Starlight at 96.7%.; Sunset 92.3% ( unbelievable), Auto Train 95%( Gets across south portion faster than scheduled). Best SD Capitols and San Joaquins.  Worse is Eagle at 55% and Cardinal and Palmetto 65%. Worse SD Carolinian and Piedmont 42%. Host RR delay minutes per 10,000 train miles are best to worse as follows: Only operational. Almost all class 1s now operate at about the average of 800 – 1000 delay minutes.

Amtrak - 279    2. BNSF – 744    3. UP – 897    4. NS – 957    5.  CSX – 1008   6.  Other 1177   7. CN – 1351   8.  CP – 1487.  If each Class 1 could speed up one train the OTP would really be up for Amtrak.

BNSF – Empire Builder;  UP – Texas Eagle (Sunset and California service keeps UP at average);  NS  -  NC service;  CSX – Cardinal and Palmetto; Other – Buckingham Branch; CN – BUF - Toronto?;  CP – ALB –  Montreal?

 

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Posted by cudjoebob on Monday, June 7, 2010 8:53 PM
To quote "more emphasis needs to be placed on improving Florida service". absolutely! Amtrak service to Florida was better in the 70s than today, and there are millions more potential customers. Southwest Florida is probably the most populous area in America that has no train service. Only 1 train a day to the Tampa area and no service down the east coast (FEC route) are travesties! No midwest to Florida service!? But I guess I'm preaching to the choir here!
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Posted by cudjoebob on Monday, June 7, 2010 8:58 PM
My brother is curious to know what the average trip length per passenger is on the Lynchburg train. Any idea?
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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:17 PM

cudjoebob
My brother is curious to know what the average trip length per passenger is on the Lynchburg train. Any idea?

A very difficult question. I'll give it a WAG only. If you or your brother is a Va resident maybe an inquiry to Va DOT would elicit the information.

1. It appears that all revenue and passengers for either originations or destinations south of WASH is included in the figures. Amtrak may compare pre Lynchburg Crescent passengers and subtract that number  

2. For April revenue was $712,108 and Passengers were 11,973. That comes to an average of $59.47 per passenger and that amount is more than the high peak fare of $38 or + Business class of +$19 is only $57  WASH - Lynchburg. It appears that all O&D passengers south of WASH are considered incremental passengers??? LYH - BWI is 203 miles which is close to the Amtrak average passenger trip of about 220 miles.

3. Since the longer fares are less per mile the $59 average fare from say Charlottesville (CVS)  - PHL is about that same fare then that mileage is 246.  Extreme example is LYH/CVS - BOS fare is the same. 

4. So for a wild WAG somewhere between 203 - 246 miles. Remember the train Originates and terminates at BOS most days

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