Big cities and Big rivers and Desert and canyon and Mountains and National parks by train

1 train passes named big cities and big rivers and desert and canyon and mountains and national parks stretches with a cited source. Ranked by the number of those stretches; the stretch names and the direction and season each is in daylight are on the route pages.

45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

RankRouteNamed stretches for big cities and big rivers and desert and canyon and mountains and national parksCountDuration
1Sunset LimitedNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Los AngelesHuey P. Long Bridge, Big Bend country, Marfa and Paisano Pass, Rio Grande and the Florida Mountains, Continental Divide, Peloncillo and Dragoon Mountains, Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard, Yuma dunes and the Colorado River, Palm Springs windmills1645 h 35 m

How this ranking works: a route scores one point for each named stretch tagged with each selected interest and cited to an operator route guide or a National Park Service description. Routes without three cited stretches have no page and are not ranked. What counts as a named stretch.