The train was making the inaugural run on the new route designed to speed up service between Tacoma, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

这趟列车当时正在新路线上进行首日运营，该路线旨在提升华盛顿州塔科马市和俄勒冈州波特兰市之间列车的运行速度。

The book is a masterful, if relentlessly bleak, account of the construction of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a route designed to connect the central African interior to the Atlantic.

这本书是关于刚果-海洋铁路(一条连接中非内陆和大西洋的路线)建设的大师之作，尽管描述得无情又冷酷。