New FRA Quarterly Report on Amtrak Performance

Two links here

First, an article in Trains: FRA report details Amtrak delays, other performance statistics (subhead) Report draws on metrics defined by rule issued in 2020

Next, the report. It’s a pdf. Quarterly Report on the Performance and Service Quality of Intercity Passenger Train Operations

Now, a couple brief quotes from the Trains article…

The report issued Monday measures delay per 10,000 train-miles to allow comparison of routes of varying length. By that standard, the Cardinal experienced 87,123 minutes, followed by the Sunset (67,300) and Eagle (42,965).

The rule is 15 minutes from the advertised. The top 3 are the Cardinal, the Sunset Limited, and the Texas Eagle.

The leading cause of delays was freight-train interference, accounting for 22% of total delay minutes, an increase of 36% from the previous quarter. Four railroads — Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern — accounted for 93% of the freight-train delay minutes.

Can anyone here say blinding flash of the obvious? UP, BNSF, CSXT, and NS run the vast majority of the Nations rail, period.

Now, to look at the report itself …

Here are some charts from the report…

I find it interesting Amtrak owns a fair bit of the responsibility.

John_Perkowski wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 4:19 pm I find it interesting Amtrak owns a fair bit of the responsibility.

Some of this is due to Amtrak's accounting practices. As an example we can leave NYP YNK CRT POU on time and arrive at RHI few minutes down due to?? Dealers choice. Yet arrive at HUD on the advertised and ALB five minutes early. Didn't effect the overall OTP of the train yet those few of minutes of delay will be and had better be accounted for, with the proper delay codes and the times better jive.

The Super at our crew base want a clerk OOS because he missed reporting a single delay an his nightly paperwork. The delay paperwork encompass the entire Empire service including the LSL and Portland service. They take this very seriously.

Too many abbrevations. What is OOS?

OOS out of service

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charlesriverbranch wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 7:33 am Too many abbrevations. What is OOS?

The other abbreviations were for station stops between New York and Albany.