Big cities and Gulf coast by train

3 trains pass named big cities and gulf coast 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 gulf coastCountDuration
1Amtrak Mardi Gras ServiceMobile to New Orleans Union Passenger TerminalMobile, Gulf shore to Biloxi, Gulfport harbor, Bay St. Louis44 h 43 m
2City of New OrleansNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Chicago Union StationLake Pontchartrain and the bayou, Mississippi River at Memphis319 h 30 m
3CrescentNew York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to New Orleans Union Passenger TerminalPotomac River and the monuments, Lake Pontchartrain trestle332 h 12 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.