Amtrak Jan 10 performance

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Despite the terrible weather in Jan and even though they cancelled a lot of trains Amtrak had a very encouraging month. The weather hit BNSF (EB & CZ) hardest on delays with CSX following behind. NS & UP tied for better. even so on time performance better than 2009

  1. Ridership up 73K for a total of 2,033K passengers

  2. Available seat miles down from 2009 by 18M. Wx.

  3. Pass miles 440M up 19M.

  4. Train miles down 6% from budget and last year.

  5. Loco fleet 19.5% Out of service Wx?

  6. Load factor 1.2% higher

  7. Diesel gallons / train mile 2.4 still do not see revelance since trailing tons cans vary so much. and how does Amtrak figure all the snow delays?

  8. Expenses per train mile up but again Wx?

  9. Bright spot Lynchburg 7768 Pass vs planned 2960 (unknow how many cancelled and how many pass did not travel because of Wx. So far Lynchchburg up 161% over forecast. ( over 2-1/2 times forecast).

10.NEC Acela up and Regional down 1%. again Wx?

  1. Short distance all up except Piedmont down 30%, and surfliner and Capital down 1%.

  2. Only Lond distance down EB most, CZ, and Cardinal all subject to cancellations.

  3. A very telling Stat is sleepers. Every route up except Capitol (probably due to sand patch derailment). How EB and CZ got more sleeper passengers is a mystery.

  4. The rebuilds of equipment is starting to show.

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