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Transcontinental railroad
contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A transcontinental railroad is a network of railroad trackage[1] that crosses a continental land mass. It must be continuous. It has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route.
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