National parks and Wildlife by train

2 trains pass named national parks and wildlife 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 national parks and wildlife	Count	Duration
1	Empire BuilderChicago Union Station to Seattle	Upper Mississippi River, Milk River and the Bear's Paw Mountains, Glacier National Park and Marias Pass, Cascade Tunnel and the Skykomish River, Puget Sound shore	6	46 h 24 m
2	Sunset LimitedNew Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to Los Angeles	Bayou country, Rio Grande and the Florida Mountains, Davis-Monthan aircraft boneyard	3	45 h 35 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.