Mountains and Wine country by train

3 trains pass named 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.

45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

RankRouteNamed stretches for mountains and wine countryCountDuration
1Coast StarlightSeattle to Los AngelesWillamette Valley, Cascade crossing, Upper Klamath Lake, Mount Shasta, Salinas Valley, Cuesta Grade635 h 16 m
2Amtrak CascadesSeattle to EugeneCommencement Bay and the Nisqually River, Mount St. Helens and the Cowlitz River, Columbia and Willamette crossings, Willamette Valley, Three Sisters56 h 38 m
3Ethan Allen ExpressBurlington to New York Moynihan Train Hall at Penn StationGreen Mountains and Vermont farms, Hudson Valley27 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.