Pacific coast by train

4 trains pass named 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.

45 routes, 520 stations, 44 route pages so far

Ranked by named stretches

RankRouteNamed stretches for pacific coastCountDuration
1Coast StarlightSeattle to Los AngelesPuget Sound shore, The coast235 h 16 m
2Pacific SurflinerLos Angeles to San DiegoThe coast from San Clemente, North County coast22 h 57 m
3Amtrak CascadesSeattle to EugeneCommencement Bay and the Nisqually River16 h 38 m
4Empire BuilderChicago Union Station to SeattlePuget Sound shore146 h 24 m

How this ranking works: a route scores one point for each named stretch tagged with this 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.

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