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 fee
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!
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