Railroad Performance Measures   



Norfolk Southern
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    RR 
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 78,306 73,754  73,887 74,166 73,245 72,867 
Foreign RR 26,176 26,335  25,751 26,948 27,183 27,198 
Private 92,711 96,756  96,503 97,472 97,120 97,625 
Total 197,193 196,845  196,141 198,586 197,548 197,690 
Pct. Private 47.0 49.2  49.2 49.1 49.2 49.4 
By Car Type
Box 22,340 21,337  21,357 21,404 21,332 20,987 
Covered Hopper 43,922 46,522  46,092 47,138 46,942 46,844 
Gondola 19,858 18,649  18,347 18,709 19,084 19,009 
Intermodal 7,244 7,255  7,179 7,426 7,344 7,314 
Multilevel 9,201 9,305  9,207 9,458 9,327 9,556 
Open Hopper 56,045 54,518  54,934 54,636 53,863 54,230 
Tank 31,935 32,298  32,204 32,746 32,461 32,648 
Other 6,648 6,961  6,821 7,069 7,195 7,102 
Total 197,193 196,845  196,141 198,586 197,548 197,690 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 29.5 28.0  26.9 28.2 28.3 28.2 
Manifest 22.2 20.5  19.8 21.0 20.8 20.2 
Multilevel 25.1 22.7  22.2 23.0 22.4 22.2 
Coal Unit 17.0 15.2  15.1 15.3 15.6 15.5 
Grain Unit 19.2 17.0  16.0 17.2 17.7 18.1 
All Trains 23.1 21.6  21.1 21.8 21.7 21.3 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Allentown, PA 23.8 25.7  29.0 25.7 24.3 24.9 
Bellevue, OH 25.4 31.9  39.0 31.5 28.8 35.7 
Birmingham, AL 25.3 30.2  29.4 31.3 29.3 37.2 
Chattanooga, TN 29.4 35.2  36.4 33.9 35.6 37.3 
Columbus, OH 24.8 14.9  9.9 14.1 28.4 13.6 
Conway, PA 29.2 41.0  51.7 45.7 41.1 31.0 
Decatur, IL 22.4 26.7  27.2 26.3 24.3 24.2 
Elkhart, IN 26.4 27.8  29.3 28.7 27.4 30.7 
Knoxville, TN 34.0 30.2  29.3 18.2 32.4 28.4 
Linwood, NC 24.0 32.5  31.9 26.8 27.6 27.9 
Macon, GA 27.8 26.5  27.1 27.7 25.5 24.3 
New Orleans, LA 17.0 16.2  15.6 18.0 16.6 19.7 
Roanoke, VA 30.3 35.3  42.6 34.5 32.6 30.7 
Sheffield, AL 22.9 25.6  23.1 25.0 25.5 25.5 
Entire Railroad 22.8 25.3  26.4 25.7 24.7 24.9 
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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