Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed

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1. Story
2. Work begun in 1929 finishes in 2002, seventy-three years later. The line the wires now follow is the line surveyed for steam locomotives in the 1890s: the traction changed twice, the alignment did not. It is the cleanest illustration available of which parts of a railway are replaceable and which are effectively permanent.
3. Knowledge
4. Trans-Siberian Railway
5. The main-line steam locomotive
6. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
7. Connections
8. Trans-Siberian Railway
9. The main-line steam locomotive
10. Vladivostok
11. Ruling gradient
12. Moscow
13. Siberia
14. Chinese Eastern Railway
15. The main-line steam locomotive
16. Chinese Eastern Railway
17. Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
18. Circum-Baikal Railway
19. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
20. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
21. Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
22. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
23. First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
24. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
25. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
26. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
27. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
28. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
29. Trans-Siberian Railway
30. Ruling gradient
31. Coal
32. The through sleeping car
33. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
34. Evidence
35. Gives the Moscow–Vladivostok distance as 9,288 km (5,771 miles), the world's longest single rail system, inaugurated 1891 and completed in sections to 1916, with electrification finished in 2002. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming Britannica; the page itself could not be fetched, as britannica.com is refused by this environment's egress proxy.