Panama (then part of Colombia): Technically the first transcontinental railroad was the Panama Railway, completed in 1855, near the narrowest point on the continent. It is only 48 miles long.
United States: The first true North American transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, after track was laid over a 1,700 mile (2,700 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads. Other transcontinental railroads followed, of which the Great Northern Railroad was built without federal aid by James J. Hill; it stretched from St. Paul to Seattle.
Asia: The first Asian transcontinental railroad was the Trans-Siberian railway (with connecting lines in Europe), completed in 1905. It is the world's longest rail line at 9,289km (5,787 miles) long.
Africa: There is no African transcontinental railroad. At least two trans-African projects have been planned: the Cape-Cairo railway by Cecil Rhodes on behalf of the British Empire, and a line from Abidjan to Algiers by the French.
A transcontinental railroad is a railway that crosses a continent, typically from "sea to sea".
The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile (2,826 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.
The Trans-Asian Railway is a project to link Singapore to Istanbul and is to a large degree complete with missing pieces primarily between Iran and Pakistan (under construction in 2005), and in Myanmar, aside from political issues.
The completion of construction of Canada's first transcontinentalrailway, the Canadian PacificRailway (CPR) on November 7, 1885 preceded a tremendous economic expansion and immigration boom in western Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In keeping with the trend of railways to exploit virgin territories, the government-backed "transcon" would run from the port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia across the northern portion of the prairies to Winnipeg, and from there across northern Ontario and Quebec to Quebec City where it would cross the St.
A 122-mile section of the NTR mainline between Nakina-Calstock, Ontario was abandoned in 1993 and the Ontario Northland Railway purchased the section of NTR mainline between Calstock and Cochrane, Ontario.
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