Railroad Performance Measures   

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Union Pacific Railroad
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 74,818 71,990  71,958 71,630 71,942 71,781 
Foreign RR 40,776 38,939  38,718 38,720 39,280 39,324 
Private 170,804 165,734  165,456 164,847 165,363 165,402 
Total 286,398 276,663  276,132 275,197 276,585 276,507 
Pct. Private 59.6 59.9  59.9 59.9 59.8 59.8 
By Car Type
Box 26,515 24,925  24,746 24,764 24,929 25,106 
Covered Hopper 93,145 90,840  90,669 90,162 90,954 90,742 
Gondola 12,140 12,561  12,725 12,475 12,454 12,345 
Intermodal 11,859 11,993  11,989 11,920 11,885 11,719 
Multilevel 15,138 12,910  12,704 12,913 13,140 12,939 
Open Hopper 58,056 55,188  55,012 55,059 55,142 55,527 
Tank 56,766 55,453  55,503 55,168 55,244 55,168 
Other 12,779 12,793  12,784 12,736 12,837 12,961 
Total 286,398 276,663  276,132 275,197 276,585 276,507 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 33.3 32.1  32.4 32.1 32.4 31.9 
Manifest 25.3 24.0  24.1 24.2 23.8 23.9 
Multilevel 28.3 27.1  27.0 27.4 27.4 27.2 
Coal Unit 25.5 25.9  26.2 25.9 25.5 25.2 
Grain Unit 24.9 24.4  24.6 24.6 24.3 24.9 
All Trains 27.2 26.5  26.7 26.8 26.3 26.3 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Chicago, IL - Proviso 29.5 31.4  32.0 31.7 31.2 31.2 
Fort Worth, TX 28.2 31.7  31.0 35.6 31.0 32.7 
Hinkle, OR 25.0 23.8  23.6 22.9 22.9 25.6 
Houston, TX - Englewood 30.2 31.6  35.2 29.4 27.2 27.2 
Houston, TX - Settegast 27.0 28.6  29.0 27.3 29.0 29.7 
Kansas City, MO 27.3 29.7  29.5 26.9 32.0 28.3 
Livonia, LA 26.7 29.4  27.6 28.4 29.3 33.1 
North Little Rock, AR 27.1 28.4  29.5 27.1 27.7 26.3 
North Platte East, NE 26.2 25.6  28.2 24.1 23.5 25.6 
North Platte West, NE 29.6 29.2  30.2 27.7 30.1 31.0 
Pine Bluff, AR 27.7 29.1  30.8 28.3 25.5 26.4 
Roseville, CA 26.9 30.2  30.1 27.7 30.8 32.4 
West Colton, CA 29.2 33.8  34.5 34.4 33.3 33.4 
Entire Railroad 27.7 25.5  25.9 25.2 25.3 25.4 
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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