Bat caught such a floater on the delayedtranscontinental express.
The transcontinentalexpress had made up lost time and came roaring in just as the stage rattled up to the platform.
Fortunate indeed you are if you step directly to a transcontinental train or into the streets of a modern town.
One February I walked out of the North Country on snowshoes and stepped directly into a Canadian Pacific transcontinental train.
Getting to the seventy-fourth floor of the Transcontinental Airways Building is harder than stealing the Taj Mahal.
As President of Transcontinental Airways, he's my boss, but the trouble is, he's also my father.
John Fuller, designing engineer, helped the two men to build a ship which used the drive in order to have a weapon to seek out and capture the mysterious Air Pirate whose robberies were ruining Transcontinental Airways.
They were seated now in the conference room of Transcontinental Airways.
Robert Arcot and his old friend Arthur Morey, president of Transcontinental Airways, were invited to see what their sons had been working on.
IV The Ancient Mariner was built in the big Transcontinentalshops in Newark; the power they needed was not available in the smaller shops.
The demonstration was to take place in the radiation labs in the basements of the Transcontinental building.
At the present moment you are talking to Evan Blount, the man, and not to the Transcontinental company's lawyer, Blenkinsop.
Can you manage to ride on Transcontinental trains without being recognized offhand?
I saw your name in the list of Transcontinental representatives to the traffic meeting in Boston, and--well, at the present moment I'm not sure but you are the one man in the world I wanted most to meet.
I can remember one year when my father rose up in his wrath and drove his beef cattle one hundred and fifty miles across the Transcontinental tracks to the Overland Central.
You can bet the air was blue in the Transcontinental Chicago offices when the news got there.
As everybody knows, theTranscontinental Railway has practically created two-thirds of the States through which it passes--made them out of whole cloth.
There is only one issue before the people and that is the Transcontinental Railway.
Though he figured only as the first vice-president of the Transcontinental Company, Hardwick McVickar was really the active head of its affairs and the dictator of its policies.
Don't you know that the Transcontinental is big enough and strong enough to chivvy you from one end of this country to the other, if you turn traitor?
I'm not chief vote buyer for the Transcontinental Company--I'm not any kind of a vote buyer.
The Transcontinental Triangulation and the American Arc of the Parallel, by C.
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey has published an account of the transcontinental triangulation and measurement of an arc of the parallel of 39 deg.
The Great Transcontinental Highway was colored not by motors alone.
That was a nice place to end a transcontinental drive--in the back yard of Mr. Johnny Kloh, with an unrestricted view of tin cans!
By diverting freight at Granger and sending it north to Portland over the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, it could affect the transcontinental rate in two ways.
By 1869 the gap between the end of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad and Niles had been filled, and this in a real sense completed the transcontinental line.
On the other hand, even the terminal cities expressed some dissatisfaction with the transcontinental adjustment.
Representatives of the transcontinental lines upon the coast were instructed to mollify Pacific Coast shippers so far as possible, and the shippers in their turn seem to have been anxious to meet this advance.
Congress was legislating in order to get a transcontinental railroad built.
The towns to which low rates have been quoted under the transcontinental adjustment are called Pacific Coast terminals.
The second feature has reference to conditions upon the eastern end of the transcontinental haul, rather than upon the western.
The fourth item referred to a proposal that Stanford, Crocker, and the Hopkins estate enter with Huntington into the ownership of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, opening the way for a transcontinental rail line from coast to coast.
Even the transcontinental railways, as any townsman will tell you, run through Mariposa.
At the head of a scheme for a transcontinental road and telegraph system was Mr. (afterwards Sir) Edward Watkin, well known as the promoter of the Grand Trunk Railway.
It was now clear that the promoters of the Pacific transcontinental railway could hope for no direct pecuniary aid from the British Government.
He told her about the Transcontinental case and how the judge had got mysteriously tangled up in the Great Northern Mining Company, and of the scandalous newspaper rumours, followed by the news of the Congressional inquiry.
A month had passed since the memorable meeting of the directors of the Southern and Transcontinental Railroad in New York and during that time neither John Burkett Ryder nor Judge Rossmore had been idle.
Such was the man who was the real power behind the Southern and Transcontinental Railroad.
And that is why there was a panic to-day among the directors of the Southern and Transcontinental Railroad.
Besides, after the Transcontinental decision he was heard to say that he'd have Judge Rossmore off the Bench inside of a year.
Ryder was the man he hit the hardest when he enjoined his Transcontinental Railroad.
He had invested heavily in the Southern and Transcontinental road and was chairman of its board of directors.
He is an air mail pilot, one of the crack fliers of the Transcontinental Airmail Corporation.
We were on the path of the transcontinental air mail, and I bided my time until an especially valuable shipment was to be made.
And there might be a climax, perhaps, with the girl and the villain in a transcontinental railway Pullman, and the hero sending frantic telegrams, or telephoning the train, and then chasing it in his airplane.
The natural overland highways throughout the country, especially those intersecting the watercourses and now used as the roadbeds for our greattranscontinental railways, were not originally discovered by man at all.
And was it not going to build a line of railroad to the town itself in order to connect it with the new transcontinental and thus put it in communication with the great commercial centres of the East and the West?
It was the buffalo, the deer, the bear, and the wolf who were our original transcontinental path-finders, or rather pathmakers.
Then, when the Indians became awkward and threatened to stop the progress of the transcontinental railway across the prairie, it was the Mounted Police that stepped in to see that the road was not blocked.
Macdonald, was a sort of composite organization which needed careful handling to prevent explosions, and some vast new problems such as the construction of a transcontinental railway were in that day swinging into politics.
The action was fast and stirring, the panorama of the story covering the entire transcontinental route of one air mail system and Janet could understand that there was material here for a really great picture.
He wired saying that he would be on the transcontinental plane which stops at Rubio at midnight.
Thus they planned, these two extraordinary young men, facing a transcontinental journey of four thousand miles, with no better equipment than the rifles which had served them on their way out.
It was the greatTranscontinental Airways that had suffered most repeatedly.
The work went forward steadily at the great Transcontinental Shops where the space ship was being built.
The great field of the Transcontinental lines was packed with excited men and women, waiting to catch a glimpse of two of the greatest things the country had heard of in the century--Arcot's molecular motion machine and the Air Pirate!
A few minutes later he landed on the roof of the Transcontinental Airways shops, entered them, and went to the office of the Designing Engineer, John Fuller, an old schoolmate.
Since he had sold all his inventions to Transcontinental Airways, he had been able to devote all his time to science, leaving them to manage his finances.
As the ship flew high above the Transcontinental plane, the men discussed the economic values of the different applications of Arcot's discoveries from the huge power stations they could make, to the cooling and ventilating of houses.
The men in the car above were watching the field, hanging inert, a point of glistening metal, high in the deep velvet of the purple sky, for fifteen miles of air separated them from the Transcontinental machine below.
Morey Senior was the president and chief stockholder in the Transcontinental Air Lines.
Before this, time and time again, you have sold us your inventions, the ideas that have made it possible for Transcontinental to attain its present high position in world transportation.
Five miles below them the huge bulk of the Transcontinental plane seemed a toy as it swung slowly across the fields--actually traveling over six hundred miles an hour.
The entire program could be carried out without attracting the least attention, for such orders from the great Transcontinental lines were so frequent that no importance was attached to them.
Thoughtfully the president of the great Transcontinental Lines looked at it.
The officials of the San Francisco terminus of The Transcontinental Airways company were worried.
Six transcontinental lines have their terminals in this city which is also the gateway to Alaska and the home port of the Great Circle Route.
Today the palatial cars of four transcontinental lines make daily trips across the state; branch lines accommodate the territory north and south; and parts not reached by rail are served by well constructed thorofares.
One of the leading railroad centers in the west, it has five transcontinental lines operating on their own tracks and two others over joint tracks.
To reach Grays Harbor, unless approaching from the ocean, means a trip through the wide fertile valley of the Chehalis river, either by auto or over one of the three transcontinental railroads that serve it.
At the lowest elevation in the Inland Empire and surrounded by a large area of irrigable land, they are served by three transcontinental railroads, permitting rapid transit to any part of the northwest.
He advised upon the strategic points where the chief entrenchments of the first transcontinental road should be laid out and he pointed out the spots where the Bank of Montreal could most effectively plant its branches.
From Mendoza the line runs across the Andes by the Uspallata Valley route, the only transcontinental line in South America.
In the transcontinental telephone line Pupin coils play a most important part, and they are distributed at eight-mile intervals throughout its entire length from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
By the spring of 1915, but a few months after the transcontinental telephone line had been put in operation, Carty had his wireless telephone apparatus ready for extended tests.
One cannot perfect a transcontinental telephone line nor a transatlantic wireless telephone in a garret.
Transcontinental travelers by this route, either east- or west-bound, are now given the opportunity of varying their trip by taking this motor drive over the Apache Trail, linking up with the train again at the point of ending.
Near the Mexican frontier the Southern Pacific transcontinental line traverses it, passing through Yuma and Tucson and reaching up to Phoenix by a branch from Maricopa.
The entire party was enjoying the late afternoon mountain air from the rear platform of the observation car on the transcontinental train known as the Red Limited.
Only a fraction of this increase belonged to the transcontinentallines which linked the two oceans in 1869.
Bechuanaland became a British "Protectorate," and the well-laid scheme for a German transcontinental Empire was frustrated.
Showing the Transcontinental belt with which Germany hoped to shut in Cape Colony and prevent northern expansion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transcontinental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
