Home › Entities › general › transcontinental railroad

transcontinental railroad

contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders
Thing general Q1064041
transcontinental railroad
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

transcontinental railroad

Summary

transcontinental railroad ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (335 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • transcontinental railroad's image is recorded as Transsibérien.png[2].
  • transcontinental railroad's subclass of is recorded as railway[3].
  • transcontinental railroad's subclass of is recorded as railway line[4].
  • transcontinental railroad's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dny3[5].
  • transcontinental railroad's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/transcontinental-rail-line[6].
  • transcontinental railroad's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as transcontinental-railroads[7].

Why It Matters

transcontinental railroad ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (335 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). transcontinental railroad. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/transcontinental-railroad
MLA “transcontinental railroad.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/transcontinental-railroad.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_transcontinental-railroad_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{transcontinental railroad}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/transcontinental-railroad}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): transcontinental railroad — https://4ort.xyz/entity/transcontinental-railroad (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/transcontinental-railroad · Last refreshed: