{"id":45998,"date":"2019-03-11T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=45998"},"modified":"2019-03-11T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:09:05","slug":"amtrak-releases-on-time-report-card-for-host-railroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/amtrak-releases-on-time-report-card-for-host-railroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak releases on-time report card for host railroads","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
National passenger carrier Amtrak released its 2018 Host Railroad Report Card, which grades six of the Class I freight host railroads based on delays caused to Amtrak trains over the last 12 months. National passenger carrier Amtrak released its 2018 Host Railroad Report Card, which grades six of the Class I freight host railroads based on delays caused to Amtrak trains over the last 12 months. The grades ranged from A to F, with Canadian Pacific being the lone recipient of an “A.” Norfolk Southern got an “F.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":7,"featured_media":41296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31,45,9,18],"tags":[574,2163,2536,4243],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe grades ranged from A to F, with Canadian Pacific being the lone recipient of an “A.” Norfolk Southern got an “F.”
\nAll told, Amtrak averaged the overall performance of the Class I host railroads at a “C.”
\nEleven of 28 Amtrak state-hosted routes achieved 80 percent on-time performance (within 15 minutes of scheduled departure), according to the report card.
\nConversely, only one of the 15 long-distance routes, the “Auto Train,” had on-time performance of more than 70 percent, Amtrak said.
\nSee the full report card (PDF) by following this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"