I find it particularly ironic that as the city is about to celebrate its 100th birthday, having been founded as railroad stop, it has no such service, despite being one of the world's most popular tourist destinations.

In North America, it is Mexico, DF

Are you saying Mexico city, the largest in the world (by some measurements) has no rail station either?

With very few exceptions, such as scattered tourist trains, the passenger train, intercity and commuter, in Mexico(country) is extinct. That was "part of the deal' when the government "privitaized' the railroads (or should I say railways, as I "sense" Mr. JABird is from overseas). Much of the capital to do so came from US railroad interests. Need more be said?

Tokyo, the First, of course has plenty of rail service.

The Sunset formerly came into downtown Phoenix where it stopped at Union Station.
For several years it has been rerouted and now stops for Phoenix passengers at MARICOPA, a very small town about 32 miles south of the Union Depot in downtown Phoenix.

I recently purchased a 1972 Amtrak Timetable as a collectible...if we could only have the 'Floridian' (nee: Southwind) and the 'National Limited' again......and yes, I recognize that portions of their respective routes have been abandoned so.....

Of course Phoenix is larger than Vegas both by measurement within its corporate (city) limits and by its MSA.

I considered but excluded Phoenix simply because Maricopa in all likelihood is within the Phoenix-Mesa MSA.

However the point of whether six trains a week that 'show up when they show up' constitutes 'service' is indeed open to controversy.

Granted, it has a monorail, if they can fix the bugs, but I was thinking in terms of inter-city service.

I did look at tables of largest US cities, and Columbus was the largest stand alone city. I discounted Phoenix for the reasons mentioned above.

Numerous potential Corridors in the Southwest such as LA-Vegas, LA-Phoenix/Tucson, Dallas-Houston, et magna alia. go undeveloped - and the chance they ever will be developed is slim to none. There is simply no initiative whatever, either at our Federal (WashDC) or State levels of Government.

If Vegas-LA were to be developed, I'd sooner lay my money on that being a success rather than doubling down my 10 count with the dealer having a 7 up.

But the chance of having it happen is about the same as 'putting it all on one number' at the Roulette table - and hitting it!!!.

wake up folks for i dont know how long san joaqin corridor trains have had connecting
bus service to yosimite national park.

why not have service from sherdian wy
via bus to yellow stone thats a selling point me if i ever saw one....

This was during July 1957.

I also find the lack of a choo-choo to Chattanooga to be just horrible. As Vinnie the Cannon D'Amati says in The Big Easy, "Nobody has any respect for monuments any more!"

Mexico City has no long distance trains - but does have a metro. The largest city with no type of train service at all is I think Lagos, Nigeria, though there ARE, possibly, trains still running in Nigeria so this information may be incorrect. If not Lagos, then it's Bogota, Colombia. I am fairly sure no passenger trains run in Colombia, unless someone else can put me right on that.

The irregular terrain of Colombia makes the construction of roads and railroads costly. Colombia has 3,154 km (1,960 mi) of operated railroad track. Most of the national railroads are feeder lines to the Magdalena River, the main transport artery of the country, which with the Cauca River is navigable for about 1,500 km (about 900 mi). Colombia has no regular passenger rail service.

Nigeria does indeed have a (sort of) functioning rail system, and one with passenger service to boot (just don't expect on-time performance).

Nigeria has a Cape-gauge (3' 6") network of about 2,000 route miles. There is even limited commuter rail service out of Lagos on the (formerly) double track main line.

Two members of my firm are actually in Nigeria right now, inspecting the line from Port Harcourt out toward Lake Chad.

The railroad is very run down. The signal system (British style semaphores) is non-functional and the equipment is in terrible condition, but the track on much of the network was rehabbed by the Chinese a few years ago.

Glad someone put me right about Lagos - so it looks like Bogota wins the grand prize.

Interesting though - Bogota USED to have trains and indeed has (or had) a pretty impressive passenger terminal - I wonder which is the largest city NEVER to have seen a train?

My own candidate - Jiddah (which includes Makkah (ie Mecca)) - which has never had trains for religious reasons (the nearest the railway ever got was Medinah, on the Turkish Hedjaz Railway, destroyed by the Arab forces in World War I).

Also Kabul - though I think the British certainly PLANNED to build a railroad to there I don't think it was ever completed.

Union Pacific Railroad Company--also known as UP---and to Amtrak as UP-yours.