transcontinental

CEFRB2

/ˌtɹænzˌkɒntɪˈnɛntəl/

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It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
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.
Stretched across the Dominion of Canada are two parallel but dissimilar railways - the continent's only true transcontinentals north of the Rio Grande.

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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
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
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.

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From trans- + continental.