Railroad Performance Measures   

Kansas City Southern Lines and Kansas City Southern de Mexico

The Kansas City Southern Railway and Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. Consolidated
Weekly Performance Report

This report includes consolidated data for The Kansas City Southern Railway Company and Kansas City Southern de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

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 
RevisionsR      
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 13,995 12,588  12,500 12,683 12,531 12,365 
Foreign RR 7,875 7,342  7,486 7,317 7,280 7,231 
Private 21,880 22,299  22,337 22,366 22,251 22,499 
Total 43,750 42,229  42,323 42,366 42,062 42,095 
Pct. Private 50.0 52.8  52.8 52.8 52.9 53.4 
By Car Type
Box 7,587 7,263  7,330 7,291 7,265 7,021 
Covered Hopper 14,061 14,094  13,921 14,266 14,267 14,297 
Gondola 5,210 4,767  4,782 4,744 4,678 4,681 
Intermodal 1,104 1,179  1,209 1,177 1,172 1,162 
Multilevel 1,056 1,020  1,074 1,029 977 717 
Open Hopper 4,272 3,702  3,748 3,700 3,537 3,681 
Tank 8,475 8,904  8,971 8,895 8,875 9,154 
Other 1,985 1,300  1,288 1,264 1,291 1,382 
Total 43,750 42,229  42,323 42,366 42,062 42,095 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 30.2 31.6  31.1 31.4 31.3 31.5 
Manifest 27.3 28.1  28.3 28.7 28.0 27.9 
Multilevel 30.2 31.6  31.1 31.4 31.3 31.5 
Coal Unit 26.8 26.4  26.5 26.3 25.7 26.4 
Grain Unit 28.3 29.9  29.4 29.0 28.4 27.6 
All Trains 28.2 29.0  29.3 28.8 28.7 28.3 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Jackson, MS 20.8 22.1  22.5 26.6 23.1 18.5 
Kansas City, MO 11.9 12.8  13.5 12.6 12.7 11.9 
Laredo, TX 19.6 21.5  21.4 17.9 21.5 22.2 
Shreveport, LA 23.1 28.8  31.2 29.3 28.0 26.4 
Monterrey, NL 16.9 18.6  17.7 18.0 18.0 19.7 
Nuevo Laredo, TM 8.1 9.3  8.2 9.0 9.1 12.0 
San Luis Potosi, SL 10.5 10.3  9.3 10.8 8.7 10.7 
Sanchez, TM 15.7 15.5  14.7 14.8 15.2 18.6 
Entire Railroad 15.8 16.5  16.6 16.6 16.4 16.6 
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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