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Answer: Where Class I railroad managers implement Precision Scheduled Railroading and traffic flows improve, as intended, there should be no effect to a positive improvement in Amtrak train time keeping.
Recent experience shows, however, that different railroads — even ones with PSR deep in their operations plans — dispatch passenger trains quite differently.
Canadian National, for instance, is the late Hunter Harrison’s first truly large railroad experiment with PSR. That railroad is unable to keep Amtrak trains running timely between Chicago and Carbondale, Ill., or VIA Rail Canada trains on its extensive network in Canada.
On time performance, is much improved, however, on CSX Transportation — which just implemented PSR — and which hosts Amtrak’s Auto Train, Silver Service, and Virginia corridor trains. — Bob Johnston and Bill Stephens, Trains correspondents
Apparently Bob Johnson and Bill Stephens don’t read the wall Street Journal. There have been industry-wide complaints about delays caused by freight train operations and an implicit threat by NS to take unspecified “action” against amtrack for tweeting news of delays and the causes thereof