transcontinental

alternative trans-continental

1. not comparableCrossing or spanning a continent.

   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

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   In that year [1871] British Columbia decided to become part of the Dominion of Canada, on condition that a transcontinental railway should be completed without delay.

   1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, pages 127-128

plural transcontinentals · alternative trans-continental

1. in plurala transcontinental railroad.

   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.