Big rivers and Mountains and Wine country by train

3 trains pass named big rivers and mountains and wine country 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 rivers and mountains and wine country	Count	Duration
1	Coast StarlightSeattle to Los Angeles	Columbia River crossing, Willamette Valley, Cascade crossing, Upper Klamath Lake, Mount Shasta, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, Salinas Valley, Cuesta Grade	8	35 h 16 m
2	Amtrak CascadesSeattle to Eugene	Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River, Mount St. Helens and the Cowlitz River, Columbia River, Columbia and Willamette crossings, Willamette Valley, Three Sisters	7	6 h 38 m
3	Ethan Allen ExpressBurlington to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station	Green Mountains and Vermont farms, Hudson Valley, Catskill and the Saugerties Lighthouse, Hudson Highlands	5	7 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.