List of railroad crossings of the North American continental divide
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A crossing of the North American continental divide is necessary for any
transcontinental railroad A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single ...
in
North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and th ...
, and has always been one of the hardest obstacles. This article lists such crossings from north to south.


Canada


United States


Mexico


Central America

The Ecocanal is a proposal to build a rail line across
Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the coun ...
from
Monkey Point Monkey Point (or Pim's Bay) is a village in South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, south of Bluefields. It is located near the site of a planned US$350 million seaport, to be financed by Iran and Venezuela. More recently American ...
on the Caribbean to Corinto on the Pacific. If built, the rail line will cross the continental divide in Nicaragua, likely at a point north of
Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ( es, Lago de Nicaragua, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest lake in Central America, the 19th largest lake in the world (by area) and the t ...
.


See also

*
List of Rocky Mountain passes on the continental divide This is a list of Rocky Mountain passes on the Continental Divide of the Americas. Major Passes Note Column:A=Automobile road R=Railway E=Used by early explorers *=not strictly a mountain pass on continental divide, included for reference. Pas ...
* Trans-Andean railways crossings of South America


References

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