The main-line steam locomotive

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1. Story
2. The traction that made these routes possible and the traction whose limits shaped them. A steam locomotive carries its own fuel and water and consumes water fastest of all, so a steam-worked long-distance route is punctuated by water columns and coaling stages at intervals the terrain and the climate set — which is one reason a line across an arid or frozen region is far more than a matter of laying rail. Adhesion between smooth steel wheel and smooth steel rail caps the gradient it can climb, which is where the ruling gradient comes from. Every route in this Journey was surveyed for a machine that no longer runs on it: the Trans-Siberian, begun in 1891 for steam, did not finish electrifying until 2002, and the alignment it electrified was the one the steam survey chose.
3. Knowledge
4. Coal
5. The main-line steam locomotive
6. Connections
7. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
8. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
9. Trans-Siberian Railway
10. Ruling gradient
11. Coal
12. The through sleeping car
13. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
14. The organic economy and its ceiling
15. The Newcomen atmospheric engine
16. Coke smelting of iron
17. The British canal network
18. Industrial child labour
19. The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping
20. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
21. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
22. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
23. The main-line steam locomotive
24. Evidence
25. 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.