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 Dec-09  01/08/10 01/15/10 01/22/10 01/29/10 
Revisions       
Cars on Line
By Car Owner
System 78,306 75,295  75,734 74,567 73,615 73,873 
Foreign RR 26,176 24,954  26,629 25,224 25,143 24,921 
Private 92,711 93,435  95,394 95,340 94,942 94,316 
Total 197,193 193,684  197,757 195,131 193,700 193,110 
Pct. Private 47.0 48.2  48.2 48.9 49.0 48.8 
By Car Type
Box 22,340 21,868  22,695 22,282 21,885 21,562 
Covered Hopper 43,922 44,358  45,442 45,227 44,964 45,230 
Gondola 19,858 19,084  19,126 18,848 18,542 18,240 
Intermodal 7,244 7,348  7,512 7,169 7,140 7,046 
Multilevel 9,201 9,336  9,738 9,053 9,335 9,414 
Open Hopper 56,045 53,981  54,957 54,810 54,247 53,883 
Tank 31,935 31,328  31,860 31,391 31,255 31,302 
Other 6,648 6,381  6,427 6,351 6,332 6,433 
Total 197,193 193,684  197,757 195,131 193,700 193,110 
Train Speed (Miles per Hour)
Intermodal 29.5 29.0  28.1 29.4 29.6 28.8 
Manifest 22.2 21.6  21.2 22.0 22.0 21.0 
Multilevel 25.1 23.8  24.5 24.2 24.4 23.4 
Coal Unit 17.0 16.1  16.1 16.4 16.8 16.1 
Grain Unit 19.2 17.7  17.1 19.1 19.5 19.4 
All Trains 23.1 22.6  22.3 23.1 23.1 22.2 
Terminal Dwell (Hours)
Allentown, PA 23.8 24.2  30.8 24.6 23.4 24.3 
Bellevue, OH 25.4 25.6  31.5 26.5 23.7 28.5 
Birmingham, AL 25.3 24.9  34.2 23.0 25.4 28.5 
Chattanooga, TN 29.4 25.9  36.9 26.4 26.1 26.7 
Columbus, OH 24.8 12.8  16.4 18.8 9.3 13.1 
Conway, PA 29.2 28.5  39.6 27.1 26.2 28.7 
Decatur, IL 22.4 22.5  37.4 28.4 29.4 29.6 
Elkhart, IN 26.4 30.0  40.1 29.1 25.5 28.5 
Knoxville, TN 34.0 31.0  37.2 24.6 27.3 27.7 
Linwood, NC 24.0 28.2  34.7 25.3 24.8 25.1 
Macon, GA 27.8 27.1  34.7 25.7 24.6 25.1 
New Orleans, LA 17.0 18.8  27.8 18.0 16.2 17.6 
Roanoke, VA 30.3 30.2  38.7 27.1 27.2 31.2 
Sheffield, AL 22.9 25.7  30.7 24.6 23.6 22.5 
Entire Railroad 22.8 23.0  30.0 22.5 21.8 22.8 
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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