Transcontinental
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Transcontinental may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- "Transcontinental", a song by the band Pedro the Lion from the album Achilles Heel
- TC Transcontinental, a publishing, media and marketing company based in Canada, a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc
- The Transcontinental, a South Australian weekly newspaper published in Port Augusta
Transport
[edit]- First transcontinental railroad, United States, 1869
- Ford Transcontinental, a truck manufactured by Ford of Britain
- National Transcontinental Railway, an historic Canadian railway company
- Transcontinental airspeed record
- Transcontinental Express, a train that arrived in San Francisco in 1876 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City
- Transcontinental flight, a flight across a continent, such as from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific across the U.S.
- Transcontinental railroad, a railway that crosses a continent, typically from coast to coast
- Transcontinental walk, crossing a continent on foot
- Transcontinental SA, an Argentine airline; see Invicta International Airlines
- Trans-Australian Railway, a railway linking eastern and western Australia
- Trans Continental Airlines, original name of Express.Net Airlines
Other uses
[edit]- Transcontinental country, a country that straddles more than one continent
- Transcontinental Hotel, a heritage-listed hotel in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Transcontinental Pipeline, a US gas pipeline
- Transcontinental Race, an annual, self-supported, ultra-distance cycling race across Europe
- Transcontinental Traverse, a geodetic survey traverse conducted in the Continental United States
- Transcontinental Treaty or Adams–Onís Treaty, a US—Spain agreement that settled a border dispute
- First transcontinental telegraph, first telegraph line to connect eastern and western United States