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The world's longest railway was completed on 21 July 1904.
The world’s longest single railway journey, 5,772 miles (9289 km) from Moscow to Vladivostok by way of Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk, nowadays takes about a week. The Trans-Siberian was the most spectacular achievement of a period in which the Russian rail network grew from 1,000 miles in 1860 to 45,000 miles by 1917.
The project was officially announced by Tsar Alexander III in 1891 and the key figure was Count Sergei Witte, a Georgian of Dutch descent who had worked his way up by way of the railways. Starting by selling tickets, he rose to stationmaster, then into top management and then into the government as minister of transport. A forceful empire-building outsider, bent on the rapid industrialisation of Russia and distrusted by conservatives, he persuaded Alexander III to make his son and heir, the future Nicholas II , chairman of the Siberian Railway Committee, which had been set up to steam through the usual bureaucratic delays and obstacles. The appointment gave the project steady royal support and Witte a chairman he could wind round his finger.
Appointed finance minister in 1892, Witte paid for the railway by raising loans, increasing taxes and simply printing roubles. Construction proceeded so fast that track sections were not always properly surveyed and green timber was often used. An army of labourers had to be kept fed and supplied. A great deal of money vanished along the way, but the single-track line was completed across the endless steppes, over rivers and through forests and swamps in the teeth of extremes of temperature, permafrost in eastern Siberia and attacks by marauding bandits and occasional tigers.
Yaroslavl Station in Moscow was opened in 1902 and the first passenger trains ran from the summer of 1903, though a ferry was needed across Lake Baikal until the track round the southern edge of the lake was completed the following year, driven through thirty-three tunnels and over more than a hundred bridges and viaducts. The line assisted the settlement and development of western Siberia. In eastern Siberia, where convicts were brought in because there was an acute shortage of local labour, it was primarily intended to further Russia’s imperial ambitions in the Far East and the final stretches were built through Manchuria on land leased from the Chinese rather than on the longer Russian route along the Amur River. Troops were moved east by rail when the Russo-Japanese War broke out, but after the war the Amur line was built to provide a route entirely through Russian territory. It was finished in 1916.
The original train with its marble-tiled bathrooms, a grand piano in the music room, a library and a gym, as well as caviar and sturgeon in the first-class dining room, proceeded at a stately 20mph or so and took nearly four weeks for the journey. The third-class carriages with their cargoes of peasants were crammed and uncomfortable, and there were frequent delays because the line had been built too quickly. Passengers needed to develop a certain fatalistic patience and today the Lonely Planet guide compares the experience to ‘being on a sea voyage or having a beach holiday indoors’.
'Railway Empire' (ALL) Steam Pre-Order Gets You Closed Beta Access, Bonuses
by Rainier on Nov. 8, 2017 @ 2:07 p.m. PST
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition. You’ll also need to hire and manage your workforce if you want to ensure an efficient train service, whilst also develop over 300 technologies ranging from mechanical improvements to the trains themselves to workplace infrastructures and advanced amenities as you progress through five eras of technological innovations.
However, you can’t just build and research your way to the top – the competition never sleeps, and to keep your business on track you’ll have to survive against up to three rival tycoons. To get to the top you may have to resort to more cutthroat tactics as you attack and sabotage your opponents through raids and industrial espionage.
Budding rail moguls can be amongst the first to test their entrepreneurial skills by getting their hands on the closed Beta for upcoming tycoon simulation Railway Empire now by pre-purchasing on Steam.
By pre-purchasing Railway Empire on Steam players will unlock instant access to the (Windows) closed Beta which contains the first two campaign levels and a comprehensive tutorial with more content being added leading to launch. As well as instant Beta access, players who pre-purchase Railway Empire on Steam will also receive an exclusive custom paint job for the ‘Super Hudson’ locomotive, a digital soundtrack (both available at launch) as well as enjoying a 15% discount.
Key Features:
- Exploit the economic opportunities of the United States in an extensive campaign, working your way step by step from coast to coast across this great continent.
- Lead your Railway Empire to success by establishing a comprehensive rail network and optimizing transportation of passengers and goods.
- Master challenges and objectives through a range of scenarios, or create your perfect railway network in construction mode without any financial pressure.
- Over 40 historically accurate locomotives and more than 30 different wagons can be acquired over the course of the game, and must be put to use in the best way in order to take advantage of their strengths and weaknesses.
- Invest in over 300 new technologies across five different eras to progress and maximize the potential of your rail network.
- Compete with up to three rival companies, and even sabotage their efforts with the use of bandits and spies.
- Co-operative and competitive multiplayer for up to four players.
Railway Empire is scheduled to launch for PC and Linux on January 26, 2018 world wide.
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