Big cities and National parks by train

2 trains pass named big cities 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 national parksCountDuration
1CardinalChicago Union Station to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn StationNew River Gorge, Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge, Potomac River and the monuments327 h 33 m
2Sunset LimitedNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Los AngelesHuey P. Long Bridge, Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard245 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.