Railroad Performance Measures   

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BNSF Railway Company
Weekly Performance Report

All seven 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.
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 Historical Average Week Ending
1Q11 Dec 2011  01/06/12 01/13/12 01/20/12 01/27/12 
RevisionsRR     
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 70,221 70,084  69,214 69,847 70,768 71,385 
Foreign RR 21,080 19,699  19,155 18,826 18,966 18,802 
Private 128,783 131,486  128,760 129,527 129,786 127,814 
Total 220,084 221,269  217,129 218,200 219,520 218,001 
Pct. Private 58.5 59.4  59.3 59.4 59.1 58.6 
By Car Type
Box 12,103 11,418  10,815 10,829 11,404 11,484 
Covered Hopper 66,753 66,010  64,528 64,294 65,674 65,547 
Gondola 8,198 8,668  8,424 8,403 8,523 8,518 
Intermodal 14,855 14,869  14,885 14,838 14,852 15,095 
Multilevel 4,695 5,010  4,851 5,064 5,087 5,036 
Open Hopper 62,606 63,345  63,643 64,452 62,792 61,226 
Tank 40,147 41,311  39,582 40,092 40,905 40,513 
Other 10,727 10,638  10,401 10,228 10,283 10,582 
Total 220,084 221,269  217,129 218,200 219,520 218,001 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 35.1 35.4  36.8 36.6 35.9 35.0 
Manifest 21.7 22.4  25.1 24.3 23.2 23.5 
Multilevel 25.5 26.2  28.4 28.3 27.7 27.5 
Coal Unit 20.2 20.6  22.5 22.3 22.2 23.2 
Grain Unit 21.6 23.2  25.9 25.0 23.9 23.8 
All Trains 24.2 24.8  26.7 26.6 25.7 26.4 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Barstow, CA 37.6 38.7  37.3 35.3 41.1 44.6 
Denver, CO 31.4 34.8  33.8 29.0 30.4 26.9 
Fort Worth, TX 23.4 20.5  19.7 25.4 23.1 23.9 
Galesburg, IL 38.4 33.9  28.2 25.7 30.9 32.0 
Houston, TX 24.8 26.6  24.6 25.7 29.0 29.8 
Kansas City, KS 33.4 35.3  30.9 30.5 28.9 32.0 
Lincoln, NE 34.8 36.0  31.5 30.8 30.7 31.4 
Memphis, TN 15.3 14.2  14.7 13.5 14.7 15.8 
Northtown, MN 34.8 30.6  29.7 29.6 33.6 31.5 
Pasco, WA 34.7 32.4  31.3 28.0 33.5 38.5 
Tulsa, OK 25.1 25.5  24.3 23.0 23.6 25.4 
Entire Railroad 27.4 26.0  24.1 23.3 25.2 26.1 
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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