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JayMadison

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I was curious, someone in the forums mentioned their was a site where you could see the estimated arrival times over the last few day or month or something like that. Do you folks know where this information is available?
 
I was curious, someone in the forums mentioned their was a site where you could see the estimated arrival times over the last few day or month or something like that. Do you folks know where this information is available?
There are 2 useful sites for current train status and history of the actual schedule performance.
One is Amtrak Status Maps which shows the last reported stop of all Amtrak trains in a region. The website has a Train Status Archives which has the trip history of all Amtrak trains in the database going back a while. The data provided by the Status Maps site allows you to examine a one train at a time, either one underway or in the archive. The person who built and maintains the Status Maps website is a regular poster on this forum. I'm posting an example below of the output for a really late #49 (8/04) that arrived at CHI today. A quick check indicates that it a was bad day for multiple trains across upper NY state between Schenectady and Buffalo on CSX.

The site that shows the arrival times of a train at a specific stop over up to the past 4 weeks is Amtrak Train Status History. It may not show all days as there may be gaps in the database.

I recommend that you bookmark the links.

Amtrak Status Map example (of really bad OTP):

Code:
* Train 49 of 08/04/2014.
* Lake Shore Limited
* +---------------- Station code
* |    +----------- Schedule Arrival Day  
* |    |  +-------- Schedule Arrival time
* |    |  |     +----- Schedule Departure Day
* |    |  |     |  +-- Schedule Departure Time 
* |    |  |     |  |     +------------- Actual Arrival Time
* |    |  |     |  |     |     +------- Actual Departure Time
* |    |  |     |  |     |     |     +- Comments
* V    V  V     V  V     V     V     V
* NYP  *  *     1  340P  *     342P  Departed:  2 minutes late.
* CRT  *  *     1  426P  *     431P  Departed:  5 minutes late.
* POU  *  *     1  510P  *     518P  Departed:  8 minutes late.
* RHI  *  *     1  527P  *     535P  Departed:  8 minutes late.
* ALB  1  620P  1  705P  648P  820P  Departed:  1 hour and 15 minutes late.
* SDY  *  *     1  731P  *     859P  Departed:  1 hour and 28 minutes late.
* UCA  *  *     1  844P  *     1024P Departed:  1 hour and 40 minutes late.
* SYR  *  *     1  941P  *     1207A Departed:  2 hours and 26 minutes late.
* ROC  *  *     1  1100P *     303A  Departed:  4 hours and 3 minutes late.
* BUF  1  1155P 1  1159P 438A  500A  Departed:  5 hours and 1 minute late.
* ERI  *  *     2  136A  *     711A  Departed:  5 hours and 35 minutes late.
* CLE  2  327A  2  345A  929A  948A  Departed:  6 hours and 3 minutes late.
* ELY  *  *     2  418A  *     1020A Departed:  6 hours and 2 minutes late.
* SKY  *  *     2  455A  *     1105A Departed:  6 hours and 10 minutes late.
* TOL  2  555A  2  615A  1214P 1243P Departed:  6 hours and 28 minutes late.
* BYN  *  *     2  705A  *     151P  Departed:  6 hours and 46 minutes late.
* WTI  *  *     2  733A  *     217P  Departed:  6 hours and 44 minutes late.
* EKH  *  *     2  825A  *     338P  Departed:  7 hours and 13 minutes late.
* SOB  *  *     2  849A  *     406P  Departed:  7 hours and 17 minutes late.
* CHI  2  945A  *  *     541P  *     Arrived:  7 hours and 56 minutes late.
 
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