Big cities and Pacific coast by train

3 trains pass named big cities and pacific 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.

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 pacific coast	Count	Duration
1	Pacific SurflinerLos Angeles to San Diego	Los Angeles River, The coast from San Clemente, North County coast, San Diego	4	2 h 57 m
2	Coast StarlightSeattle to Los Angeles	Puget Sound shore, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, The coast	3	35 h 16 m
3	Amtrak CascadesSeattle to Eugene	Seattle departure and Boeing Field, Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River	2	6 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.