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
3Q09 Jul-10  08/06/10 08/13/10 08/20/10 08/27/10 
Revisions       
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 75,341 66,273  68,718 68,277 66,922 67,396 
Foreign RR 18,478 18,919  19,809 19,995 19,743 19,984 
Private 123,525 128,714  130,955 129,487 129,904 130,606 
Total 217,344 213,906  219,482 217,759 216,569 217,986 
Pct. Private 56.8 60.2  59.7 59.5 60.0 59.9 
By Car Type
Box 13,553 11,492  11,905 11,827 11,694 11,585 
Covered Hopper 63,286 59,926  62,441 62,602 62,640 63,709 
Gondola 8,376 8,199  8,388 8,497 8,318 7,823 
Intermodal 15,732 14,290  14,637 14,428 14,262 14,274 
Multilevel 5,211 5,067  5,070 4,761 4,733 4,691 
Open Hopper 60,603 63,840  65,635 64,645 64,571 65,716 
Tank 38,007 39,924  40,282 39,911 39,506 39,490 
Other 12,576 11,168  11,124 11,088 10,845 10,698 
Total 217,344 213,906  219,482 217,759 216,569 217,986 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 39.2 35.5  34.7 35.5 35.9 36.1 
Manifest 25.0 23.5  22.5 22.7 22.8 22.9 
Multilevel 31.2 27.7  25.3 26.5 26.6 27.3 
Coal Unit 22.6 19.5  18.2 19.4 19.4 20.0 
Grain Unit 26.2 23.5  21.5 22.6 22.9 22.7 
All Trains 26.9 24.7  23.7 24.2 24.5 24.6 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Barstow, CA 37.0 35.4  34.4 35.9 33.0 36.1 
Denver, CO 27.8 27.2  30.4 35.3 32.9 27.2 
Fort Worth, TX 23.9 22.3  25.2 20.9 23.3 21.8 
Galesburg, IL 31.8 28.9  31.9 27.5 29.0 29.6 
Houston, TX 24.0 26.4  28.6 27.8 26.7 25.6 
Kansas City, KS 30.4 27.9  28.8 29.4 27.8 28.7 
Lincoln, NE 32.3 37.8  32.5 35.6 35.9 31.4 
Memphis, TN 13.6 16.4  18.7 16.6 14.1 14.2 
Northtown, MN 32.0 32.6  30.8 31.7 30.5 33.5 
Pasco, WA 26.3 28.1  30.8 29.9 28.6 27.4 
Tulsa, OK 23.6 22.1  25.3 21.4 23.6 22.0 
Entire Railroad 23.3 24.2  25.4 24.8 24.5 23.9 
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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