transcontinental• This was her thirdtranscontinentalflight in three years, and its differences from the others showed her transformation.• By 1886, the first year after the completion of the transcontinental line, the figure was 1,665,960.• The transcontinentalpipeline that hit the news last year is only part of the project.• The first transcontinentalrailroad, we were taught to believe, was a huge government success.• a transcontinental railroad• The government had long since perceived that the way westdepended on the transcontinental railroad.• But transcontinentalstatus always brought a classicalrush to the head of railroad companies.• But the savingsdisappear on transcontinentaltravel.