Amtrak Train and Greyhound Bus Route Maps (USA)

[Hostels]

I was looking at the public transportation route maps in the USA for Amtrak (train) and Greyhound (bus):

PDF Route Maps:
Train: http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/national.pdf
Bus: http://www.greyhound.com/locations/routemap.pdf

Seems like it's not very comprehensive...

[uktrail]

On two occasions I planned to travel by Amtrak, but failed to do so. The first was when I found that it goes through all the interesting scenery at night (San Francisco to Portland). The second was when I took the trouble to go to the station to book a ticket a week beforehand, and was told it was booked up (Portland to Tacoma). Not really geared to the customer.

[Tim]

It's better in the northeast where Amtrak has competition from commuter railways and Chinatown buses.

Also Megabus have a good cheap bus network in the Midwest.

[Hostels]

I wasn't aware of Megabus. I just looked them up and found their maps here:
http://www.megabus.com/us/schedules/

I didn't know about the Chinatown buses either::
http://www.staticleap.com/chinatownbus/

Peter Pan is another one:
http://www.peterpanbus.com/