Billings to Denver, Portland to Boise, El Paso to Albuquerque. Those are just a few of the new routes found on a map recently produced by the Federal Railroad Administration of a dramatically expanded long-distance passenger train network.

As part of 2021’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the FRA was required to study the prospects of expanding Amtrak’s current long-distance network to cities that have either lost their service since the creation of Amtrak in 1971 or never had it to begin with. As part of that effort, the FRA hosted a series of workshops around the country this year, most recently in Cleveland, to gather input from stakeholders. During that last meeting in Ohio, the FRA also shared a map of an “Enhanced Network.”