Railroad Performance Measures   

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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 58,905 57,519  57,898 57,437 57,211 56,839 
Foreign RR 30,871 30,580  30,143 30,879 31,426 31,513 
Private 129,086 128,544  128,132 129,118 129,128 129,684 
Total 218,862 216,643  216,173 217,434 217,765 218,036 
Pct. Private 59.0 59.3  59.3 59.4 59.3 59.5 
By Car Type
Box 20,201 19,300  19,167 19,392 19,418 19,778 
Covered Hopper 51,006 50,580  50,592 50,936 50,840 50,563 
Gondola 18,509 20,141  20,031 20,195 20,286 20,230 
Intermodal 6,456 6,591  6,571 6,673 6,603 6,725 
Multilevel 12,547 11,799  11,656 11,958 12,028 12,014 
Open Hopper 60,479 58,251  58,478 58,208 58,326 58,075 
Tank 40,126 40,153  39,789 40,258 40,444 40,595 
Other 9,538 9,828  9,889 9,814 9,820 10,056 
Total 218,862 216,643  216,173 217,434 217,765 218,036 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 30.8 29.0  28.4 28.5 29.4 29.4 
Manifest 21.7 19.9  19.1 19.3 20.6 20.5 
Multilevel 23.7 21.0  20.7 20.2 21.1 21.5 
Coal Unit 16.2 15.7  15.3 15.4 16.0 16.6 
Grain Unit 19.2 18.0  17.4 18.0 18.2 18.3 
All Trains 21.6 20.3  19.7 19.8 20.6 20.7 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Baltimore, MD 24.9 38.6  46.3 46.8 34.1 31.2 
Buffalo, NY 27.2 19.2  19.0 19.6 19.6 18.9 
Chicago, IL 16.9 14.4  14.7 14.7 14.1 13.8 
Cincinnati, OH 30.5 37.4  41.4 41.2 33.2 37.3 
Corbin, KY 25.1 23.5  23.6 23.9 22.7 31.0 
Hamlet, NC 28.5 34.6  30.7 36.1 34.0 31.9 
Indianapolis, IN 31.6 38.6  40.4 39.5 38.7 39.7 
Louisville, KY 37.9 36.9  33.9 35.0 39.2 33.5 
Montgomery, AL 29.4 34.7  30.3 34.2 38.7 32.0 
Nashville, TN 29.0 31.8  30.3 33.4 33.1 30.8 
Russell, KY 34.3 38.1  44.2 38.0 34.2 36.2 
Selkirk, NY 31.1 31.8  34.8 29.8 30.9 29.5 
Toledo, OH 35.8 34.3  34.7 33.8 35.9 37.6 
Waycross, GA 27.5 31.7  34.6 31.1 29.4 32.8 
Willard, OH 26.9 27.7  32.9 26.7 25.9 28.6 
Entire Railroad 24.1 26.8  28.5 27.3 26.0 26.0 
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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