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[quote user="South Texas"] OMG. Please don't forget Bryan/College Station, Tyler, Sherman/Denison, Victoria, or San Angelo (which has no Interstate highway). Texas is ripe for the picking. [/quote] I used the 2010 U.S. Census Data, which is based on an actual count, as opposed to the 2013 data, which is a statistical estimate. The 100,000 cut-off was arbitrary.   I wanted to illustrate why I believe the argument that Amtrak is an important link in the nation's commercial passenger transport system is wrong.   If the national train system is an important link in the nation's passenger transport scheme, how come they don't serve every city in the United States with a population above a trigger point, i.e. population of 100,000?   I did not consider a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area or combined areas.  Moreover, I did not include any cities that were within a reasonable driving distance of an Amtrak station. In 2010 the population of San Angelo was 97,492; Tyler was 96,945, Victoria was 62,601, Bryan was 76,218, and College Station was 94,063. The combined population of Sherman/Denison or the other way around in 2010 was 61,019.
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