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Перевод: transcontinental

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трансконтинентальный; пересекающий континент

Тезаурус:

1. Slowly the long train wound past the derelict shanty-town houses between the water and the tracks where Malcolm Lowry was writing his great novel, "Under the Volcano", straight to the Pacific terminal of the transcontinental railway.
2. But transcontinental status always brought a classical rush to the head of railroad companies.
3. With the developments in fibre optics and the explosion in the use of services such as transcontinental video conferences, the competition can only get stiffer.
4. True to his word, Tom Warner had located an immense 8-wheeled transcontinental locomotive, not yet cooled down at the divisional changing point, assembled a crew of engineer and fireman, loaded the engine with coal and water, and attached the engine to the Divisional Superintendent's own private railway coach.
5. But the Russians had their own grand plan which made even the North American transcontinental schemes and the Cape to Cairo dream pale into insignificance.
6. But in 1869, the year of the completion of the first American transcontinental railway, the greatest examples of the picturesque still lay in the future.
7. In 1901 West Australia was enticed into the new Commonwealth with the promise of a transcontinental line, just as British Columbia had been persuaded to join the Canadian Confederation with railway promises.
8. It blocked off the end of Granville Street, Vancouver's main thoroughfare, and was consciously designed to present the city both as the great terminus of the transcontinental railway and as a great Oriental gateway.
9. On the prairie transcontinental and branch lines, stations were required every five to ten miles for the convenience of farmers bringing their grain to the station elevators in horse-drawn vehicles.
10. The difference was, of course, that they shared the same land mass, and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks.
11. It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed, thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time.
12. Second and third crossings of the Rockies were effected by the Canadian Northern (to Vancouver) and the Grand Trunk Pacific (to Prince Rupert), while the government-owned Transcontinental set about linking Grand Trunk metals to the east coast.
13. European manufacturers could reach the Orient faster by swift crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific connected by the American transcontinental lines.