LINK
http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/253/117/Amtrak-Monthly-Performance-Report-November-2014.pdf
Report is out with a few items first.
1. Thanksgiving sunday was in november this year but not 2013.
2. An average day ( realize that there is no day that mirrors an average day of a month ) will produce 3.3% of total traffic for a month.
3. If assuming a normal Sunday it probably has 1.5% and Thanksgiving Sunday may be 4.5% that will be an increase of 1%. ( very suspect )
Now for some highlights
11.Ridership up 5% passenger miles up just 5% so average trip length same.
12. Average load factor up 2% with revenue up 10%. Operating ratio went below 100 for first time.
13. Thanksgiving (Tu - Sunday) overall loads up 3%, Acela down 1/2%, NEC up 7%, State up 5%. LD up 9% but revenue down so shorter trips on LD? Acela ridership may be bumping up against capacity constraints of the fixed consists. NEC may have had more seats?
14. For the month loads Downeaster, LSL, and Builder all significally down. That may have as well lowered possible passengers on the Chicago connections?
Equipment mechanical section.
Also 7 AM-2s amfleet diners. 3 -1s also rebuilt.
22. There is no major work at Beech Grove scheduled on any Heritage equipment including the diners. So if any fail they are out the door?
23. A almost normal overhaul rate of Superliners is scheduled but that figure may change due to the reduction of consists announced in December.
Delays
31. NS actually came in slightly lower than BNSF but almost all of NS and as well CSX delays are on the northern lines. ( some routes 10,000 minutes ) Down south NS & CSX are doing fairly well.
32. BNSF delays on the Builder are terrible.
33. Sun rail is delaying the Auto Train, Meteor, Star more than 3000 minutes per 10,000 miles. One suspicion is the draw bridge north of Sanford has had problems closing. ( This is from personal observation ).
34. BBrRR is still delaying Cardinal at over 2000 minutes. Anyone know if that is mostly eastbound Cardinals?
35. Major delays chart for slow orders is interesting. All those charts give new insight.
36. The best RR is still Vermont RR Ethan Allen with delays below 30 which might be that only one train in November was delayed 5 minutes ?
37. OTOH the short section of the Wolverine over CN having a 3500+ minutes might have come from only one or 2 trains delayed.
Interesting numbers ! How is sun rail performing?
blue streak 1Report is out with a few items first.
Thanks. But why not include a link to the report as well as this non-sequential series of numbered question-comments?
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
schlimm
Thanks!!
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