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Thought it might be fun to speculate which locations are on the official list of cities that Trains will do a trackside guide for. I read somewhere that 40 will be done, but not sure if that meant 40 total or 40 after the ones that had already been done at the time of the question. Anyway, here's my guess, in no particular order: 1 Vancouver 2 Seattle 3 Portland (easy guess) 4 Sacramento/Bay Area(neither has enough by themselves, but perhaps a supersized geographic area would suffice) 5 LA 6 Denver 7 Omaha (another easy one) 8 Dallas-Fort Worth 9 Houston 10 New Orleans 11 Memphis 12 St. Louis 13 KC (too big for a guide? How about an entire issue? Since everythings up to date in Kansas City, they might as well go about as far as they can go.) 14 Twin Cities (sticking my neck out) 15 Milwaukee 16 Chicago (Does that entire issue count as such?) 17 Detroit (taking candy from a baby) 18 Toledo 19 Cincinnati (I'm post-clairvoyant) 20 Birmingham 21 Atlanta 22 Jacksonville 23 Charlotte (reach out to catch Hamlet, Salisbury, and the Clinchfield) 24 Baltimore 25 NYC area 26 Montreal 27 Toronto 28 Buffalo-Niagara 29 Pittsburgh 30 Cleveland Now it gets more interesting 31 The most obvious is a Central Ohio. Columbus is somewhat sparse by itself, but kick in Fostoria, Deshler, Marion, Willard, and Greenwich, and you've got one of the best. Perhap combine with Toledo for a super Ohio issue, or split off Fostoria and Deshler to Toledo) 32 Central TX - San Antonio/San Marcos/Temple/Taylor/Hearne/Flatonia/Navasota - geographically one of the biggest, but SA is too sparse by itself, and the UP one-way streets make this conglomeration of lines and junctions suprisingly interesting, along with a variety of shortlines and big time rock traffic (a undercovered story unto itself) 33 Tennessee Triangle (Chattanooga-Nashville-Knoxville) 34 S. Indiana (Lousville-Evansville-Princeton-Indy) The rest are kinda marginal, compared to the above, but still worthy IMHO: 35 Shreveport-Texarkana 36 Tidewater-Richmond and Norfolk combined 37 DC(really should be combined with Baltimore, otherwise each is a bit sparse, unless perhaps one goes wide to include the B-Line and Hagerstown-Roanoke line) 38 Philadelphia-Allentown (Philly is freight-starved, but passenger variety and history) 39 Salt Lake City (pretty much a one horse town, but enough route variety, Salt Lake causeway, Soldier Summit) 40 Harrisburg-Central PA (another one horse town, but shortlines and tourists lines) Bonus 41 Winnepeg (hey, we're not exactly saturated with Winnepeg coverage) Sorry Boston, but not enough freight. Man cannot live on MBTA alone. Sorry Mexico, but it is still just too much of a risk to fan there yet. Sorry Tampa, Phoenix, Miami, but there just ain't sufficient volume. Enough already with the overhyped Bone Valley, seeing it once is plenty. So there's my 41. How close am I? Since this is so subjective, anyone else have a better list? OBTW, 40 at 4 per year is 10 years. Would absolutely love to see that sped up to 6 per year.
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