across-the-continent

Updated: August 26, 2026

With financial ruin staring them in the face, they, and the whole brood of erstwhile railroad kings, will make urgent haste to sell to the government, at the bare cost of construction, such great through lines as may be necessary to maintain inter-state commerce, and across-the-continent traffic. Other roads, they may not sell at any price.

Milan C. Edson - Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century