Big rivers and Mountains and National parks by train

3 trains pass named big rivers and mountains 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.

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45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

Rank	Route	Named stretches for big rivers and mountains and national parks	Count	Duration
1	CardinalChicago Union Station to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station	Ohio River, New River Gorge, Greenbrier River and the Allegheny Tunnel, Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge, Potomac River and the monuments, Susquehanna River	9	27 h 33 m
2	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, Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard, Yuma dunes and the Colorado River, Palm Springs windmills	7	45 h 35 m
3	Empire BuilderChicago Union Station to Seattle	Upper Mississippi River, Glacier National Park and Marias Pass, Flathead Tunnel, Cascade Tunnel and the Skykomish River, Puget Sound shore	6	46 h 24 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.