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Crossing or spanning a continent. quotations examples
It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554
plural transcontinentals
(chiefly in the plural) a transcontinental railroad. quotations examples
Stretched across the Dominion of Canada are two parallel but dissimilar railways - the continent's only true transcontinentals north of the Rio Grande.
1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.