Sunset Limited

TheSunset Limited in 2014.
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Locale	Southwestern United States
First service	1894 (1894)
Current operator(s)	Amtrak
Former operator(s)	Southern Pacific (1894–1971)
Annual ridership	76,937 (FY 24)  -0.5%[a][1]
Route
Termini	Los Angeles, California New Orleans, Louisiana
Stops	20
Distance travelled	1,995 mi (3,211 km)
Average journey time	45 hours, 40 minutes (eastbound) 46 hours, 35 minutes (westbound)[2]
Service frequency	Three round trips per week
Train number(s)	1 (westbound) 2 (eastbound)
On-board services
Class(es)	Coach Class Sleeper Service
Disabled access	Train lower level, all stations
Sleeping arrangements	Roomette (2 beds) Bedroom (2 beds) Bedroom Suite (4 beds) Accessible Bedroom (2 beds) Family Bedroom (4 beds)
Catering facilities	Dining car,Café
Observation facilities	Sightseer lounge car
Baggage facilities	Overhead racks, checked baggage available at selected stations
Technical
Rolling stock	GE Genesis Superliner
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge
Operating speed	44 mph (71 km/h) (avg.) 79 mph (127 km/h) (top)
Track owner(s)	UP,BNSF
Route map Legend 4321 mi 6954 km Service suspended toOrlando 4321 mi 6954 km Service suspended toOrlando Silver Service toMiami Orlando Winter Park Sanford Deland Palatka Jacksonville Silver Service toNew York Lake City Madison Tallahassee Eastern Time Central Time Chipley Crestview Pensacola FL AL Atmore Mobile AL MS Pascagoula Biloxi Gulfport Bay St. Louis MS LA 0mi New Orleans Huey P. Long Bridge overMississippi River 55 mi 89 km Schriever 127 mi 204 km New Iberia 145 mi 233 km Lafayette 219 mi 352 km Lake Charles LA TX Sabine River 330 mi 531 km Beaumont 362 mi 583 km Houston Texas Eagle toChicago 572 mi 921 km San Antonio 742 mi 1194 km Del Rio 867 mi 1395 km Sanderson 959 mi 1543 km Alpine Central Time Mountain Time 1177 mi 1894 km El Paso TX NM Rio Grande 1265 mi 2036 km Deming 1325 mi 2132 km Lordsburg NM AZ 1443 mi 2322 km Benson 1493 mi 2403 km Tucson 4321 mi 6954 km Pre-1996 route viaPhoenix 4321 mi 6954 km Pre-1996 route viaPhoenix Coolidge Tempe Phoenix 1579 mi 2541 km Maricopa 1744 mi 2807 km Yuma AZ CA Mountain Time Pacific Time Indio Closed 1998 1889 mi 3040 km Palm Springs Southwest Chief toChicago 1956 mi 3148 km Ontario 1963 mi 3159 km Pomona Alhambra Closed 1975 Coast Starlight toSeattle Pacific Surfliner 1995 mi 3211 km Los Angeles This diagram: view talk edit

TheSunset Limited is along-distancepassenger train run byAmtrak, operating on a 1,995-mile (3,211 km) route betweenNew Orleans andLos Angeles. Major stops includeHouston,San Antonio andEl Paso in Texas, as well asTucson, Arizona. Opening in 1894 through theSouthern Pacific Railroad, theSunset Limited is the oldest continuously operatingnamed train in the United States.

With three round-trip journeys per week, theSunset Limited is tied with theCardinal for the lowest frequency of any regularly-scheduled Amtrak route. Each end-to-end journey takes about two days. West of San Antonio, the train runs combined with theTexas Eagle.

From 1993–2005, theSunset Limited operated an extended service toMiami,Florida, becoming Amtrak's longest and onlycoast-to-coast train route. Major stops between New Orleans and Miami includedMobile (Alabama), Tallahassee,Jacksonville, and Orlando (Florida).^[3] However, the route east of New Orleans was permanently halted in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina.

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Southern Pacific
Crescent to Washington D.C. New Orleans Union Station closed 1954 New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal New Orleans–Carrollton Ave. Avondale Morgan City Franklin Jeanerette New Iberia Lafayette Rayne Crowley Mermentau Jennings Welsh Lake Charles Sulphur Vinton LA TX Orange Beaumont Liberty Houston Rosenberg East Bernard Eagle Lake Columbus Weimar Schulenburg Flatonia Waelder Harwood Luling Seguin Randolph Field San Antonio Lacoste Dunlay Hondo D'Hanis Sabinal Knippa Uvalde Cline Spofford Del Rio Devil's River Comstock Langtry Pumpville Lozier Watkins Dryden Sanderson Longfellow Tesnus Haymond Marathon Alpine Paisano Marfa Valentine Lobo Hot Wells Sierra Blanca Small Finlay McNary Fort Hancock Tornillo Fabens Clint Ysleta Central Time Mountain Time El Paso TX NM Afton Cambray Deming Gage Separ Lordsburg Steins NM AZ San Simon Bowie Wilcox Cochise Dragoon Benson Mescal Empire Vail Cruz Tucson Cortaro Rillito Marana Red Rock Picacho Eloy Casa Grande Maricopa Gila Sentinel Aztec Mohawk Wellton Yuma AZ CA Mountain Time Pacific Time Ogilby Glamis Niland Salton Mecca Thermal Coachella Indio Palm Springs Cabazon Banning Beaumont Redlands Loma Linda Colton Bloomington South Fontana Guasti Ontario Pomona Puente Bassett El Monte San Gabriel Alhambra Los Angeles–Arcade closed 1914 Los Angeles–Central 1914 to 1939 Los Angeles cut back 1942 Santa Barbara San Francisco

Before the start ofAmtrak on May 1, 1971, theSunset Limited was operated by theSouthern Pacific Railroad. TheSunset Limited is the oldest named train in the United States, operating since November 1894 along theSunset Route (though originally named theSunset Express). The Sunset Route (originating in New Orleans) is the southernmost of the three gateways to the West Coast envisioned through thePacific Railroad Acts. The other two embarked fromChicago andSt. Louis. However, the Sunset Route had two major advantages over the other two routes. It was an all-weather, year-round route that did not face the crippling snows of the Wasatch or Sierra mountain ranges to reach the Pacific Coast. Additionally, the other two routes had to assault the front range of the Rockies.

In addition, opened 20 years before thePanama Canal, the Sunset Route vastly shortened the time to reach the West Coast from the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, as New Orleans was already an established seaport for Atlantic shipping lines’ passengers, seeking to reach the US interior. The Sunset Limited allowed passengers to reach the West Coast in a few days, not weeks.

TheSunset Limited was Southern Pacific's premier train.^[4] Initially, theSunset Limited was an all-Pullman train, with sleeping cars and no coaches, running from New Orleans toSan Francisco via Los Angeles.^[5] From its beginning in 1894, until streamlining in 1950, all the train's cars had 6-wheeltrucks and dark olive green paint, with black roofs and trucks. In the summer of 1926, it was scheduled at 71 hr 40 min New Orleans to San Francisco; it then carried a coast-to-coast sleeper from Jacksonville to Los Angeles.

The San Francisco–Los Angeles portion of theSunset Limited was cut on January 5, 1942. The cut was intended to last only several months to allow for equipment overhaul, but became permanent.^[6] On June 2, 1949, the Southern Pacific introduced faster schedules on several named trains. TheSunset Limited was reduced to49+3⁄4 hours eastbound and 48 hours westbound.^[7]

In contrast to its earliest Amtrak years,^[8] theSunset Limited, up to its later years, made stops not only at Phoenix, but also atMesa andChandler, Arizona.^[9]

Amtrak assumed operation of most intercity passenger train routes in the United States on May 1, 1971, including those of the Southern Pacific. Amtrak retained theSunset Limited and initially left its route unchanged.

On October 2, 1981, Amtrak began operating the Chicago-boundEagle (known as theTexas Eagle since 1988) in conjunction with theSunset Limited. The routes operate as one train between Los Angeles andSan Antonio,Texas.

TheLouisville and Nashville Railroad had operated theGulf Wind between New Orleans andJacksonville, Florida, from 1949 to 1971, when Amtrak dropped the route. This corridor saw limited service over the next two decades: in 1984–1985 theGulf Coast Limited ran between New Orleans andMobile, Alabama, and from 1989 to 1995 theGulf Breeze served the segment from Mobile toAtmore, Alabama.^{[citation needed]}

On April 4, 1993, Amtrak extended theSunset Limited eastward to Miami. The train followed the former route of theGulf Wind between New Orleans and Jacksonville, restoring service on that corridor, and used the route of Amtrak'sSilver Meteor south of Jacksonville.^[10] It was serviced at Amtrak's Hialeah yards for the return trip. It was only the second direct rail link between Orlando and Miami, following local trains by theAtlantic Coast Line andSeaboard Coast Line in the mid-1960s.

Schedule unreliability caused theSunset Limited's eastern terminus to be truncated toSanford on November 10, 1996. Service was re-extended to Orlando on October 26, 1997, and the traindeadheaded (operated empty) between Orlando and Sanford for servicing. Sanford was, and still is, the servicing point for Amtrak'sAuto Train.^{[citation needed]}

On September 22, 1993, the three locomotives and four of the eight cars of the eastboundSunset Limited derailed and fell off a damaged bridge into water nearMobile, Alabama. Known as theBig Bayou Canot rail accident, the incident is Amtrak's worsttrain wreck and resulted in 47 deaths.^[11]

On October 9, 1995, in an event known as thePalo Verde derailment, saboteurs derailed theSunset Limited nearHarqua, Arizona, by removing 29 spikes from a section of track, and short-circuited the signal system to conceal the sabotage. The attack killed one person and injured dozens of others. The crime still remains unsolved.^[12]

On June 2, 1996, theSunset Limited was rerouted to a more southerly route betweenTucson, andYuma, Arizona, bypassingPhoenix.Union Pacific, which had acquired Southern Pacific earlier in the year, wanted to abandon a decaying portion of itsPhoenix–Yuma "West Line", particularly the Roll Industrial Lead, that had previously been used to serve Phoenix due to deteriorating track conditions and very light freight traffic. By then theSunset Limited was almost the only train using the Wellton Branch, and service was slow and bumpy along this worn-out section.^[13] UP demanded that Amtrak pay for the maintenance, which they would not do.^[14] Thus by June 1996, theSunset Limited was bypassing Phoenix, and UP promptly put the 64-mile midsection of the Wellton Cutoff out of service. This made Phoenix one of the nation's largest cities without direct passenger service; although the designatedPhoenix-area stop is inMaricopa, a suburban community about 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Phoenix.Amtrak Thruway service, run by Stagecoach Express, connects the two cities.^[15]

On August 29, 2005, theSunset Limited route was truncated east ofSan Antonio,Texas, as a result of damage to trackage in the Gulf Coast area caused byHurricane Katrina. In late October 2005, service was restored between San Antonio andNew Orleans, as the line throughLouisiana had been repaired. Service east of New Orleans was suspended permanently despiteCSX Transportation completing repair of the track in January 2006.^[16]

TheSunset Limited received a modified schedule on May 7, 2012, moving its westbound movements from New Orleans to a Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday circuit. The times allow several 7- to 12-hour rides between major-city pairs; for example, overnight between Tucson or Maricopa (for Phoenix) and Los Angeles in both directions.^[17]

While most Amtrak trains saw service reductions in 2020–2022 due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, theSunset Limited and its existing sub-daily schedule were not affected.^[18][19] TheTexas Eagle was reduced to tri-weekly from October 2020 and May 2021, temporarily matching theSunset Limited.

On July 11, 2023, theSurface Transportation Board announced that it was opening an investigation into the poor on-time performance of theSunset Limited.^[20]

As time has passed, particularly since the January 2006 completion of the rebuilding of damaged tracks east of New Orleans by their ownerCSX Transportation, the obstacles to restoration of theSunset Limited's full route have been more managerial and political than physical. Advocates for the train's restoration have pointed to revenue figures for Amtrak's fiscal year 2004, the last full year of coast-to-coastSunset Limited service. During that period, theOrlando–New Orleans segment accounted for 41% of theSunset's revenue.^[21]

Section 226 of theRail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 16, 2008, gave Amtrak nine months to provide Congress with a plan for restoring service that "shall include a projected timeline for restoring such service, the costs associated with restoring such service, and any proposals for legislation necessary to support such restoration of service."^[22]

In January 2016, Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission announced jointly that aGulf Coastpassenger rail inspection trip was to be made fromNew Orleans toJacksonville, with elected officials among those on board during the February 18–19 excursion. Stops were planned for all of the stations formerly part of theSunset Limited's route between those two cities.^[23] In June 2018, the commission missed the deadline for submitting a request for service restoration along the Gulf. It said that it could not apply for theFederal Railroad Administration's (FRA) fiscal-year 2017 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure Safety and Improvements (CRISI) funding because Alabama and Mississippi were unwilling to assist with funds. Alabama's share would have been $5.3 million. The Louisiana governor, on the other hand, was willing to provide the funds. The three states' cooperation was needed to secure the $35.5 million in federal CRISI funds.^[24]

On February 23, 2021, following the conclusion of one year of negotiations with CSX andNorfolk Southern, Amtrak officials announced that anew Gulf Coast corridor service between New Orleans and Mobile would start as early as January 2022.^[25] Amtrak plans to pay for repairs along the route.^[26] In late 2022, with lengthy negotiations with Amtrak, Norfolk Southern, and CSX expected, the Gulf Coast service was projected to begin sometime in 2023.^[27][28] However, in early August 2023, it was reported that an agreement between Amtrak, CSX, and the city of Mobile on the design and construction of the station there had not yet been reached, and that the service was now not expected to start until the first quarter of 2024.^[29] In late August the working name of the train was reported to beMardi Gras Service.^[30] As of January 2025, Amtrak is planning to have service operational in June 2025.^[31]

In terms of the rest of the route for the restoration of Florida Panhandle service, Amtrak stated that their "focus has been on restoring service from New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama," and they would be "willing to explore such service [on the Florida Panhandle] with the state’s financial support."^[32] Meanwhile, theFlorida Department of Transportation stated that they would support service restoration "as long as the restored service is aNational Network long-distance train that will not require a future annual operating subsidy from state sponsors."^[33] The mayors and city councils ofPensacola,Tallahassee, andLake City have shown much interest in resuming the service. The corridor would eventually need to be upgraded for speeds greater than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h), and some of the stations require refurbishment or replacement.^[34]

In 2009, Brian Rosenwald, a now-departed Amtrak executive, outlined ideas for a complete overhaul of the route, including daily service.^[35] It was to have theTexas Eagle operate over theSunset Limited's route west ofSan Antonio, with a stub train connecting San Antonio (with a cross-platform transfer) andNew Orleans. The plans were halted whenUnion Pacific stated that to get a dailySunset Limited, Amtrak would need to pay $750 million for infrastructure improvements.^[36]

Passenger totals would double with daily service, according to the PRIIA study that looked atTexas Eagle/Sunset Limited service. It forecast an incremental improvement of more than 100,000 passengers from the daily service, which is already running in excess of 100,000 a year.^[37] In the meantime, the Union Pacific has double-tracked much of the route with its own money. However, Amtrak still lacks the equipment and funds needed to move to daily service.

In June 2021, SenatorJon Tester ofMontana added an amendment to the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021 which would require theU.S. Department of Transportation (not Amtrak itself) to evaluate daily service on all less frequent long-distance trains, meaning theSunset Limited andCardinal.^[38] The bill passed theSenate Commerce Committee with bipartisan support,^[39][40] and was later rolled intoPresident Biden'sInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which Congress passed on November 5, 2021.^[41] The report is known as theAmtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study and must be delivered to Congress within two years.^[42]

In June 2023, Amtrak submitted an application for a federal grant to increaseSunset Limited service to operate daily.^[43]

Phoenix Subdivision (UP), black: Inactive Portion blue:Gila Subdivision orange:Phoenix Subdivision (BNSF)

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Roll Industrial Lead Gila Subdivision Gila River Roll Industrial Lead Phoenix Subdivision toPalo Verde (West Phoenix industrial spurs) Salt River Spur BNSFPhoenix Subdivision Phoenix Union Station Valley Metro Rail Phoenix Yard & Intermodal Terminal PHX Sky Train Valley Metro Rail Salt River Tempe Tempe Industrial Lead Chandler Industrial Lead Magma Arizona Railroad Copper Basin Railway Coolidge Gila Subdivision

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Since its Wellton branch closure, officials have intermittently considered different options for how to reopen the line and restore Sunset Limited direct passenger service to Phoenix and potentially launching intercity service to LA. In 2009, theArizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) requested federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to help restore the Wellton Branch and bring the Sunset Limited back to Phoenix but was unsuccessful. In 2014, ADOT hired the consultants URS to do a more in-depth Wellton Branch rehabilitation study. The study was commissioned by ADOT in an effort to understand the existing condition of the Wellton Branch and to develop improvement scenarios and capital cost estimates for freight and passenger rail service between Arlington and Wellton, a distance of 90.8 miles.^[44] In that study, it was determined that light freight demand along the Wellton Branch line/Phoenix Subdivision does not warrant re-opening the Wellton Branch and that re-opening this corridor solely for passenger service is not cost effective, although if freight demand increased, phased rehabilitation made sense. It also recommended that the State seek to identify and develop freight opportunities for the Wellton Branch.^[43][45][13]

Ideally, to get the line running again, Amtrak and the ADOT should work with UP to come up with a detailed capital improvement plan. Such a plan would determine exactly what projects are needed and what will they cost. The capital project plan could present an opportunity to propose rebuilding curves (with increased superelevation) and other improvements to increase train speeds. Straight sections could be feasibly improved for trains traveling faster than 100 mph.

New higher Class 5 speed track than the FRA Class 4 track proposed by ‘Scenario 3’ in the 2014 ADOT study is possible. There is no technical reason to limit the Wellton Branch to Class 4. A staged plan for double-tracking the line is also needed, starting with upgrades to existing sidings. If UP needs to continue storing more railcars in the area, then additional sidings can be built for that purpose.^[13]

In February 2023, the FRA indicated that it was studying a re-route of theSunset Limited from Maricopa back to Phoenix as part of theAmtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study ordered by the IIJA. The move would revert a 1996 route change that cut direct service to Arizona's most populous metropolitan area, with stops atPhoenix,Tempe, andCoolidge.^[46]

In June 2023, Amtrak submitted an application to the FRA seeking funding for a project to returnSunset Limited service to Phoenix, paired with increasing the route's frequency to once-daily service.^[43]

In December 2023, as a part of theCorridor Identification and Development Program, the Federal Government awarded a $500,000 grant to the State of Arizona to studyPhoenix–Tucson passenger rail. The new rail line plan would send trains from Tucson to the far East Valley, through downtown and on to the West Valley, before reconnecting to UP's mainline inWellton, near Yuma. Part of this route would include trackage needed for theSunset Limited's return to Phoenix service.^[47]

As of 2024^[update], a typicalSunset Limited train has one or twoGE P42DC locomotives, aViewliner II baggage car, aSuperliner sleeper, a Superliner diner, a Superliner Sightseer Lounge, a Superliner coach, and a Superliner coach/baggage car. West of San Antonio, the train has an additional sleeper and coach that operate as Los Angeles–Chicago through cars via theTexas Eagle. Amtrak plans to eventually re-add a Superliner transition sleeper to the train.^[48]

As with other long-distance routes, Amtrak plans to replace the P42DCs withSiemens ALC-42 locomotives by 2027, and the Superliner cars withnew long-distance cars by 2032.^[49]

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For most of its existence, theSunset Limited route was owned by theSouthern Pacific Railroad. The nameSunset Limited traces its origins to theGalveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific subsidiary which was known as theSunset Route as early as 1874.

Most of the current route from New Orleans westward is now owned by theUnion Pacific Railroad, which acquired Southern Pacific in 1996. However, the route within Louisiana and some of Texas was partially sold toBNSF Railway^[50] in 1995 in return for BNSF not objecting to the UP-SP merger.

On the portion of the route east of New Orleans, service was suspended afterHurricane Katrina. Those tracks, between New Orleans and Florida, include parts of theAtlantic Coast Line Railroad, theSeaboard Air Line Railroad, and theLouisville and Nashville Railroad—all now merged intoCSX Transportation. Currently, the segment of the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad between DeLand and Orlando is owned by Orlando's commuter serviceSunRail, and the segment of track from Pensacola to Baldwin is now owned by theFlorida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad.

The train uses the following route segments, identified here by the names of their original owners:

State/Province	City	Station	Connections
Louisiana	New Orleans	New Orleans	Amtrak:City of New Orleans,Crescent  46 Rampart–Loyola Streetcar Line, 49 Loyola–Riverfront Streetcar Line New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
	Schriever	Schriever
	New Iberia	New Iberia
	Lafayette	Lafayette
	Lake Charles	Lake Charles	Lake Charles Transit
Texas	Beaumont	Beaumont	Beaumont Municipal Transit System
	Houston	Houston	Amtrak Thruway Greyhound Lines METRO Bus
	San Antonio	San Antonio	Amtrak:Texas Eagle Amtrak Thruway
	Del Rio	Del Rio
	Sanderson	Sanderson
	Alpine	Alpine
	El Paso	El Paso	El Paso Streetcar Sun Metro
New Mexico	Deming	Deming
	Lordsburg	Lordsburg
Arizona	Benson	Benson	Greyhound Lines
	Tucson	Tucson	Sun Link Sun Tran
	Maricopa	Maricopa	Amtrak Thruway
	Yuma	Yuma
California	Palm Springs	Palm Springs
	Ontario	Ontario	Amtrak Thruway: 19 Omnitrans
	Pomona	Pomona	Metrolink:Riverside Foothill Transit Omnitrans
	Los Angeles	Los Angeles Union	Amtrak:Coast Starlight,Pacific Surfliner,Southwest Chief Metrolink:91/Perris ValleyAntelope ValleyOrange CountyRiversideSan BernardinoVentura County Metro:A Line,B Line,D Line,J Line Amtrak Thruway: 1 FlixBus Greyhound Lines Los Angeles Metro Bus,Antelope Valley Transit Authority,City of Commerce Transit,City of Santa Clarita Transit,LAX FlyAway,LADOT Commuter Express,LADOT DASH,Mount St. Mary's College Shuttle,University of Southern California Shuttles,Foothill Transit,Big Blue Bus,Torrance Transit,Dodger Stadium Express

Along with theCardinal, theSunset Limited is one of Amtrak's two long-distance services which operate thrice weekly.^[51] Consequently, it carried the third-fewest passengers of any Amtrak train infiscal year 2019 (92,827, a 4.4% decrease over FY2018). It had a total revenue of$10,769,179 in 2016, marking a 7.5% decrease over FY2015.^[52][53]

Traffic by Fiscal Year (October–September)

	Ridership	Change over previous year	Ticket Revenue	Change over previous year
2007[54]	63,336	-	$6,955,881	-
2008[54]	71,719	013.2%	$8,052,515	015.8%
2009[54]	78,775	09.8%	$8,272,084	02.7%
2010[55]	91,684	016.4%	$9,962,415	020.4%
2011[55]	99,714	08.8%	$11,138,286	011.8%
2012[56]	101,217	01.5%	$11,584,844	04.0%
2013[56]	102,924	01.7%	$12,275,400	06.0%
2014[57]	105,041	02.1%	$12,597,724	02.6%
2015[57]	100,713	04.1%	$11,639,368	07.6%
2016[52]	98,079	02.6%	$10,769,179	07.5%
2017[58]	99,000	00.9%	-	-
2018[59]	97,078	01.9%	-	-
2019[59]	92,827	04.4%	-	-
2020[60]	55,118	038.9%	-	-
2021[61]	57,562	04.4%	-	-
2022[61]	73,904	028.4%	-	-
2023[62]	77,288	04.6%	-	-
2024[63]	76,937	0-0.5%	$10,800,000[64]	-

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