Railroad Performance Measures   

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BNSF Railway Company
Weekly Performance Report

Now Available: 53 Week Historical Performance Data

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All six railroads use the same definitions to calculate their performance data,ensuring a high degree of consistency of the measurements. However, these measures are most useful for examining trends and relative changes, and least useful as absolutes.

The level of one railroad’s performance relative to another’s may differ sharply because each railroad is unique. Differences between railroads include terrain, physical routes and network design, traffic mix and volume, the extent of passenger operations, and operational practices. External factors such as weather and port operations can also cause variations between railroads and over time.In addition,individual differences in the collection and reporting of operational data may affect the absolute level of the measures on each road to some degree.

The performance measures reported by CN on their website do not use the same definitions and therefore are not consistent with the measures on this website. Comparisons of trends in the data produced with different definitions are not meaningful.
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 Historical Average Week Ending
1Q09 Feb-10  02/12/10 02/19/10 02/26/10 03/05/10 
Revisions       
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 79,737 70,196  71,133 69,809 69,080 69,234 
Foreign RR 19,111 19,369  19,497 19,183 19,326 19,658 
Private 126,150 125,088  125,288 123,952 125,327 125,502 
Total 224,998 214,653  215,918 212,944 213,733 214,394 
Pct. Private 56.1 58.3  58.0 58.2 58.6 58.5 
By Car Type
Box 14,607 12,447  12,541 12,084 12,311 12,677 
Covered Hopper 65,360 63,704  64,383 62,941 63,134 63,464 
Gondola 9,083 8,050  8,243 7,885 7,972 8,008 
Intermodal 15,995 14,905  14,984 14,775 14,933 14,864 
Multilevel 4,948 4,724  4,792 4,673 4,630 4,673 
Open Hopper 65,439 58,177  57,933 58,224 58,699 58,359 
Tank 37,283 40,140  40,507 39,773 39,623 39,862 
Other 12,283 12,506  12,535 12,589 12,431 12,487 
Total 224,998 214,653  215,918 212,944 213,733 214,394 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 38.4 37.9  37.6 38.5 37.3 37.7 
Manifest 25.3 23.9  24.0 24.3 23.5 23.9 
Multilevel 30.8 29.6  29.9 29.6 29.5 29.5 
Coal Unit 22.1 23.2  23.6 23.2 23.2 23.3 
Grain Unit 26.0 25.0  24.5 24.9 24.8 25.9 
All Trains 26.4 26.5  26.6 26.7 26.2 26.6 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Barstow, CA 33.4 42.9  40.7 42.9 47.1 46.9 
Denver, CO 30.0 29.5  26.7 30.3 34.5 28.1 
Fort Worth, TX 23.7 25.3  23.7 27.5 24.2 22.4 
Galesburg, IL 31.0 32.1  32.0 32.1 30.7 34.0 
Houston, TX 23.1 27.2  29.9 27.0 25.3 28.9 
Kansas City, KS 27.3 32.5  33.3 29.9 32.7 32.6 
Lincoln, NE 31.7 33.5  36.4 31.5 32.7 32.5 
Memphis, TN 13.0 18.0  18.0 18.1 17.9 20.0 
Northtown, MN 33.2 37.4  39.6 37.1 34.1 37.9 
Pasco, WA 26.3 28.5  27.8 27.8 31.1 29.0 
Tulsa, OK 24.6 20.9  21.6 20.1 20.6 20.4 
Entire Railroad 23.3 25.8  26.2 25.8 25.2 25.4 
When reviewing the above data, please refer to the specific definitions by this carrier to understand the measurements being provided.
R = Revised Figure(s) reported for this week 
- = Not Available
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