Big cities and Big rivers and Prairie by train

2 trains pass named big cities and big rivers and prairie 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.

Mountains Pacific coast Atlantic coast Gulf coast Desert and canyon Big rivers Prairie Snow National parks Big cities Small towns Wine country Wildlife

45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

Rank	Route	Named stretches for big cities and big rivers and prairie	Count	Duration
1	Texas EagleChicago Union Station to San Antonio	Mississippi River at St. Louis, Arkansas River at Little Rock, Red River, Dallas skyline and the Trinity River, Balcones Fault and the Brazos River, Blackland Prairie and the edge of the Hill Country	7	32 h 36 m
2	City of New OrleansNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Chicago Union Station	Lake Pontchartrain and the bayou, Mississippi River at Memphis, Cairo and the Shawnee Hills, Illinois Corn Belt	5	19 h 30 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.