Anyone found Amtrak's 2017 annual report yet?

[neroden]

The Wall Street Journal apparently has it:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amtrak-posts-lowest-operating-loss-in-decades-as-ridership-grows-1510793592

But I won't pay them to get past the paywall, since I don't give money to Murdoch rags.

The report itself doesn't seem to be on Amtrak's website.

They've also discontinued the monthly route performance reports entirely, as far as I can tell, though they've maintained the OTP reports. Probably reasonable, though I liked looking at the financial numbers.

 

[caravanman]

As it is a Murdoch publication, you can't be sure of "The Facts" anyway.

Ed.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Know thy enemy better than thy friends.- Sun Tzu.

 

[PRR 60]

From the article:

Amtrak recorded its lowest operating loss in decades this year, as the national passenger railroad pushes to one day break even. In financial results released Thursday, Amtrak broke passenger and revenue records for the year ending Sept. 30, helping to narrow its operating loss to $194 million.
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Last year, Amtrak recorded an operating loss of $230 million. From 2007 to 2012, its operating losses ranged between $373 million and $469 million.
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Amtrak’s finances were boosted in this most recent financial year by a rise in ridership of 1.5% to 31.7 million passengers. Revenue increased 1.1% to $3.2 billion.

 

[afigg]

Way too early for the official FY2017 annual report to be released. Those typically are posted in the following February or March. Amtrak has issued a press release about the preliminary FY2017 ridership and revenue numbers that i assume WSJ based its story on.

Press release webpage: Amtrak Sets Ridership, Revenue and Earnings Records. Which has a link to a 1 page train service ridership summary with ridership rounded off to the nearest 1000s: FY17-Ridership-Fact-Sheet-Final.pdf.

For ridership % growth, good year for the NE Regionals, Downeaster (rebound from repeated service interruptions I expect), Keystone, Norfolk regional, Heartland Flyer, Wolverine, Lincoln Service, Hiawatha, Surfliner, Capital Corridor, Cascades, Cardinal, Texas Eagle.

Among those with declines, NHV-SPH, Carolinian, Piedmont were all affected by service interruptions for corridor improvement projects among others.

 

[KmH]

Some parts of that I found particularly interesting:

• Continued with our deleveraging of the Amtrak balance sheet, decreasing total debt from $3.3 billion at Sept. 30, 2007 to $1.2 billion at Sept. 30, 2017, a reduction of 64 percent over the 10 year period.
• Continued to be an industry leader in efficient sales distribution with more than four-fifths of Amtrak’s customers using Amtrak’s self-service channels for their reservations and ticketing.
• Increased membership in the Amtrak Guest Rewards program by 19 percent.
• Launched a national partnership with Lyft.

https://media.amtrak.com/2017/08/amtrak-lyft-announce-rideshare-partnership/

New users of Lyft will receive $5 off each of their first four Lyft rides by using the promo code AMTRAKLYFT.

Which is good because the way Uber is, Uber is my choice of last resort.