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.

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 
RevisionsRR     
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 13,981 12,193  12,118 12,240 11,863 11,785 
Foreign RR 7,776 9,263  8,870 9,017 8,928 8,561 
Private 21,607 23,303  22,591 22,881 22,798 22,620 
Total 43,364 44,759  43,579 44,138 43,589 42,966 
Pct. Private 49.8 52.1  51.8 51.8 52.3 52.6 
By Car Type
Box 7,496 7,293  7,057 7,114 6,979 6,915 
Covered Hopper 13,893 15,025  14,583 15,029 14,332 14,374 
Gondola 5,429 4,882  4,905 4,994 4,948 4,709 
Intermodal 1,123 1,353  1,132 1,233 1,286 1,201 
Multilevel 1,088 1,411  1,350 1,406 1,620 1,731 
Open Hopper 4,015 3,932  3,894 3,690 3,633 3,338 
Tank 8,636 9,477  9,259 9,188 9,111 9,105 
Other 1,684 1,386  1,399 1,484 1,680 1,593 
Total 43,364 44,759  43,579 44,138 43,589 42,966 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 30.7 26.4  27.3 27.7 27.5 27.8 
Manifest 27.7 22.8  23.4 23.7 23.6 24.1 
Multilevel 30.7 26.4  27.3 27.7 27.5 28.7 
Coal Unit 26.0 24.6  23.4 26.3 25.6 26.0 
Grain Unit 29.2 20.2  24.2 26.0 26.1 26.1 
All Trains 28.4 23.3  24.4 25.3 25.1 25.3 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Jackson, MS 20.4 25.8  21.9 26.6 29.3 30.6 
Kansas City, MO 13.5 17.2  16.1 19.6 14.3 11.6 
Laredo, TX 22.5 29.3  19.2 25.7 17.8 16.0 
Shreveport, LA 28.3 25.6  27.2 30.8 32.8 27.7 
Monterrey, NL 16.8 44.7  24.7 23.4 24.2 23.4 
Nuevo Laredo, TM 6.2 32.3  9.9 6.8 6.5 7.1 
San Luis Potosi, SL 10.7 25.1  12.9 13.4 13.6 13.3 
Sanchez, TM 16.6 38.6  19.1 23.7 19.6 18.1 
Entire Railroad 16.3 24.0  19.1 19.8 18.8 17.7 
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
©1999-2010 The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, all rights reserved. May not be reproduced or republished without permission. Train Speed and Terminal Dwell statistics are produced and maintained by KCS; Cars on Line data are produced by Railinc and maintained by the AAR.