THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

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• Transcontinental railroad — perhaps being an exception. The Americas Panama The world s first inter oceanic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ] railroad was the Panama Railway, completed in 1855. Built near the narrowest point of the Central American isthmus in modern day… …   Wikipedia

• First Transcontinental Railroad — This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento, completed in 1869. For other transcontinental railroads see transcontinental railroad. At the ceremony for the driving of the Last Spike at Promontory… …   Wikipedia

• Committee on the Pacific Railroad — The Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroad is a defunct committee of the United States Senate. It was first established as a select committee on July 7, 1861, to examine legislation to authorize construction of a transcontinental railroad.This… …   Wikipedia

• United States Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroad — The Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroad is a defunct committee of the United States Senate. It was first established as a select committee on July 7, 1861, to examine legislation to authorize construction of a transcontinental railroad. This …   Wikipedia

• Railroad police — is a type of security police responsible for policing railroad (or railway) lines. In the United States and Canada, they are employed by the major Class I railroads, as well as some smaller ones. In other countries, this work is typically done by …   Wikipedia

• railroad — /rayl rohd /, n. 1. a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail. 2. an entire system… …   Universalium

• Transcontinental Express — As a publicity stunt, the express train called the Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad on 4 June 1876, only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. The feat was… …   Wikipedia

• transcontinental — [[t]træ̱nskɒntɪne̱nt(ə)l[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n A transcontinental journey or route goes from one side of a continent to the other. In American English, transcontinental usually means from one side of the United States to the other. ...in mid… …   English dictionary

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• Transcontinental Air Transport — (T A T) was airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that was to merge in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA.Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail… …   Wikipedia

• Transcontinental — may refer to: *transcontinental flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States *Transcontinental airspeed record from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States *Transcontinental (publisher), a major Canadian newspaper and… …   Wikipedia