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This Week at Amtrak, 2008-07-21

July 20th, 2008 wlindley Comments off

Volume 5 Number 21

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Stats: Empire Builder vs. Hiawatha

July 20th, 2008 wlindley Comments off

A comparison of the Empire Builder to the Hiawatha Service trains:

F.Y. 2007 Empire
Builder		 Hiawatha
Service
Endpoint departures per day 1 7
Route Length, miles 2,200 86
Total Revenue $53,177,800 $10,230,000
Revenue Passenger Miles 390,824,000 47,619,000
Passengers 505,000 593,000
Average Trip Length, miles 773.9 80
Load Factor 60.7% 37.7%
Revenue per Passenger-Mile $0.1361 $0.2148
Average Passengers per mile 206.7 110.7

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