RA/LWAY Jill K. Mulligan Associate General Counsel BNSF Railway Company P.O. Box 9619 Fort Worth, TX 76161-9 25 Lou Menk Drive Fort Worth, TX 7611-2828 817-52-25 Direct 817-52-299 Fax Jill.mulligan@bnsf.com September 26, 214 Ms. Cynthia Brown Chief Section of Administration Office of Proceedings Surface Transportation Board 95 E Street, SW Washington, DC 242-1 26745 ENTERED Office of Proceedings September 26, 214 Part of Public Record Re: STB Ex Parte No. 724 (Sub-No. 2), United States Rail Set-vice Issues-Grain Dear Ms. Brown: Enclosed for electronic filing in the above captioned proceeding is the Weekly Repo rt of BNSF in response to the Board' s Order of June 2, 214. Thank you for yo ur attention to this matter. Sincerely,
BEFORE THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD STB EX PARTE NO. 724 (Sub-No. 2) UNITED STATES RAIL SERVICE ISSUES--GRAIN WEEKLY REPORT OF BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY BNSF Railway Company ("BNSF") provides the following fourteenth weekly status report in response to the Board' s Order of June 2, 214 in the above referenced sub-docket. The Board's Order requested weekly status reports containing the following metrics by state: (a) running total of outstanding grain car orders at the end of the week; (b) total number of new orders for the week; (c) total number of orders filled for the week; (d) number of orders cancelled by shippers for the week; (e) number of orders cancelled by BNSF for the week; and (f) average number of days late for all outstanding grain car orders. The Board's Order also asked for the number of cars allocated to grain car service each week, including private cars in service. In a subsequent decision issued on August 18, 214, the Board asked for plan versus performance information for grain shuttle trips, by region, for the most recent fo ur weeks. Included herein is the weekly update on the performance measures contained in: (i) Attachment A reflecting our efforts to resolve the backlog of grain orders from the prior harvest; (ii) Attachment B reflecting BNSF's progress as measured against the past due glide path previously provided, (iii) Attachment C showing the distribution of past due shipments based on the number of days delayed beyond the want date; and (iv) Attachment D containing the shuttle trips-per-month (TPM) figures for the overall system and for the five destination regions
reported to our customers. All data in Attachments A, B and C has been updated through the morning of September 25, 214, and Attachment D covers the most recent four weeks of information reported in our weekly customer TPM communications. We wi ll continue to provide weekly updates of Attachments A, B, C and D pursuant to the schedule in the Board's June 2,214 order and to communicate frequently with our customers to ensure that they understand our service situation and that we hear specific feedback. Respectfully submitted, September 26, 214 enk Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76 1 1 2
214 Grain Orders Update Past Due orders are as of 9125 -All other measures are for preceding week, 9/18-9/24 Attachment A AR CA co la 1 IL KS LA MN MO MT NO NE NM OK OR so TN TX V' la 1 N I V!Y Past Dues New Past Dues New Orders rders Fi lied Cancelled Orders Cars Stations Avg. Days Cars Stations Cars Stations Cars Stations Shipper BNSF. 5 1 8.6 4 1 2 1 1 1 8.7 2 122 2 15 2 5.7 1 1 15 1. 22 1 4 19.1 1 2 1 7. 162 9 18 4 61 4 6 2.8 6 2 6 4 2 18 7.8 9 17 118 9 556 2 2,72 62 9.2 1,44 58 96 19 1,188 9 6 5 6.5 25 5 2 2 17 5. 2 1 1 1 9. 42 6 6. 4 4 169 6 8 1. 8 1 2 6 89 6.2 145 7 5 2 171 9 24 8 1 15.8 25 1 1 12. 27 2 1 1 12 5 Car orders become past due v1hen they are greater than days past the desired want date Current BN SF past due of 2,921 is up 1. 2'% vs 2,5 81 Ia st week Current B NSF active grain fleet is 26,47 cars, w ith 5% underload (active empty fleet 12,614 cars) Current private equipment in grain service is approximately 21 cars 9/26/214
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Shuttle Trips Per Month v. Plan Attachment D September PLAN 9/2 9/1 9/6 8/ BNSF System 2.2 2. 2. California 2. 1.8 Texas Gulf 2.8 1.6 2.6 PNW 2.4 2.9 West Texas.4 2.7 2. 1.7 1.9 Mexico 1.4 1.2 1.4 1.4 1. 4