Big rivers and Pacific coast by train

3 trains pass named big rivers 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.

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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 pacific coast	Count	Duration
1	Coast StarlightSeattle to Los Angeles	Puget Sound shore, Columbia River crossing, Carquinez Strait and Suisun Bay, The coast	4	35 h 16 m
2	Amtrak CascadesSeattle to Eugene	Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River, Columbia River, Columbia and Willamette crossings	3	6 h 38 m
3	Empire BuilderChicago Union Station to Seattle	Upper Mississippi River, Puget Sound shore	2	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.