How many trains can you put down in Ticket to Ride?
At the beginning of the main game, players are dealt four train car cards as their playing hand. They are also dealt three Destination Ticket cards, each showing a pair of cities on a map of the United States and southern Canada.
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The longest continuous path consists of just the eight trains along those four routes. This is confirmed through play with multiple groups and through use of the official electronic version.
A Train Station allows its owner to use one, and only one, of the routes belonging to another player, into (or out of) that city to help him connect the cities on his Destination Tickets. Stations may be built on any unoccupied city, even if it currently has no claimed routes into it.
Rules say that stations, and the opponents' routes they may provide access to, do not count for the purpose of computing paths and claiming the longest one.
The routes score points by themselves, as mentioned above, but routes not connected to a player's destination do not help them reach the destination or complete their destination ticket. The key to the game is getting the routes connected.
Train travel is often cheaper than flying, in part because you can generally take more with you before paying extra baggage fees. It can also be more convenient and relaxing than driving, especially if you'd be driving in an unfamiliar place or driving for many hours nonstop to get to your destination.
Generally, if you're traveling on one route multiple times in a day, an all-day ticket may be cheaper than buying two separate tickets, depending on the distance. However, if you're traveling on multiple routes on the same day, two single tickets may be the better option.