Big cities and Big rivers and Mountains and Wine country by train

2 trains pass named big cities and big rivers and mountains and wine country 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 mountains and wine countryCountDuration
1Coast StarlightSeattle to Los AngelesColumbia River crossing, Willamette Valley, Cascade crossing, Upper Klamath Lake, Mount Shasta, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, Salinas Valley, Cuesta Grade935 h 16 m
2Amtrak CascadesSeattle to EugeneSeattle departure and Boeing Field, Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River, Mount St. Helens and the Cowlitz River, Columbia River, Columbia and Willamette crossings, Willamette Valley, Three Sisters86 h 38 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.