EP 724 Rail Service Data

The Surface Transportation Board requires Class I rail carriers to provide weekly reports containing data on rail service performance. These reports, which also include data pertaining to the Chicago gateway, allow both the agency and the public to have greater real-time visibility into the performance of the Class I industry. This dataset comprises these official filings, which undergoes a process of extraction, cleansing, and data quality checks. The refined output is loaded into structured analytics columns. Individual Carrier Performance Data * System average train speed by train type and overall system train speed * Weekly average terminal dwell time and overall system dwell time * Cars online by car type * Weekly average dwell time at origin for unit trains by train type * Weekly average number of trains held per day by train type and cause * Weekly average number of loaded and empty cars in revenue service not moved in 48 hours or more * Weekly total grain cars loaded and billed by state and service * Grain cars: cars ordered, car orders filled, cars past due * Weekly average coal unit train loadings or carloadings versus planned loadings for the reporting week by coal production region * For Class I carriers operating a grain shuttle program, the average grain shuttle turns per month, for the total system and by region, versus planned turns per month, for the total system and by region (reported in the first weekly report of each month, covering the previous calendar month) * Weekly carloads originated and carloads received in interchange by 23 commodity categories Note: This dataset does not include Chicago Gateway related information. It will be made available in the future. Methodologies The calculation and derivation of measures may vary by Class I railroad based on each carrier’s operational practices and reporting methodologies. While all Class I rail carriers submit data in accordance with Surface Transportation Board reporting requirements, differences in measurement definitions, data sources, and calculation approaches may result in variations across railroads. Detailed carrier-specific methodologies and definitions are available below: * [CPKC] * [BNSF] * [Canadian National] * [Canadian Pacific] * [CSX] * [Kansas City Southern] * [Norfolk Southern] * [Union Pacific] Note: Through the report week ending May 3, 2025, Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway submitted rail service data separately. From the report week ending May 9, 2025, onwards, data for the merged CPKC is available. The Class I railroads are required to submit this data every Wednesday by the close of business. The data is then posted each Thursday by close of business. Note: This dataset includes historical data beginning from March 2017 for all railroads. In 2014 in Docket No. EP 724 (Sub-No. 3), the Board began collecting data on an interim basis. In 2016 in Docket No. EP 724 (Sub-No. 4), the Board adopted a final rule establishing permanent reporting, which modified the previous data reporting requirements and datasets. As a result, data collection under EP 724 (Sub-No. 3) was discontinued on March 22, 2017, and initial reporting under EP 724 (Sub-No. 4) began on March 29, 2017. You can view data prior to March 29, 2017 by searching for each railroad’s weekly status report filing in Docket No. EP 724 (Sub No. 3) on the Board’s website. Data Download Note: This full dataset may be too large to open in Excel. Consider adding filters to reduce the dataset size before downloading, or choose the CSV or JSON file formats.