Big cities and Mountains by train

11 trains pass named big cities and mountains 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.

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45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

Rank	Route	Named stretches for big cities and mountains	Count	Duration
1	California ZephyrChicago Union Station to Emeryville	Front Range and Moffat Tunnel, Fraser Canyon, Gore Canyon and the upper Colorado River, Castle Gate and Soldier Summit, Truckee River canyon, Donner Pass and the American River Canyon, San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay shore	7	52 h 57 m
2	Amtrak CascadesSeattle to Eugene	Seattle departure and Boeing Field, Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River, Mount St. Helens and the Cowlitz River, Columbia and Willamette crossings, Three Sisters	5	6 h 38 m
3	Coast StarlightSeattle to Los Angeles	Cascade crossing, Upper Klamath Lake, Mount Shasta, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, Cuesta Grade	5	35 h 16 m
4	CrescentNew York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal	Potomac River and the monuments, Blue Ridge foothills, Appalachian foothills, Chattahoochee River and Cheaha Mountain, Lake Pontchartrain trestle	5	32 h 12 m
5	Sunset LimitedNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Los Angeles	Huey P. Long Bridge, Marfa and Paisano Pass, Rio Grande and the Florida Mountains, Peloncillo and Dragoon Mountains, Palm Springs windmills	5	45 h 35 m
6	VermonterSt. Albans to Washington Union Station	Waterbury and the Green Mountains, Vermont countryside, Pioneer Valley, Hudson River tunnels and the Meadowlands, Schuylkill River	5	12 h 47 m
7	CardinalChicago Union Station to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station	New River Gorge, Greenbrier River and the Allegheny Tunnel, Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge, Potomac River and the monuments	4	27 h 33 m
8	Northeast RegionalRoanoke to Boston	Blue Ridge foothills, Potomac River and the monuments, Schuylkill River, Hudson River tunnels and the Meadowlands	4	17 h 42 m
9	PennsylvanianPittsburgh to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station	Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, Allegheny Mountains and the Horseshoe Curve, Schuylkill River, Hudson River tunnels and the Meadowlands	4	9 h 33 m
10	Texas EagleChicago Union Station to San Antonio	Mississippi River at St. Louis, Ozark foothills, Ouachita foothills, Dallas skyline and the Trinity River	4	32 h 36 m
11	Lake Shore LimitedChicago Union Station to Boston	Chicago skyline and the Lake Michigan shore, The Berkshires and the Westfield River	2	22 h 2 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.