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Ladle Car

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Ladle Car 

a welded steel ladle mounted on a railway car for transporting molten pig iron to the mixer in a steel-smelting plant or to a casting machine. The interior is lined with refractory brick. Locomotive traction is used to move the car; five or six cars are coupled together. The most common ladle cars used in the USSR have capacities of 100 and 140 tons.
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2 million cubic feet of air per minute; as well as ladle cars for transporting hot metal to and from the LMF.
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Iron is tapped into 1500-lb ladle cars that double as tundish (ductile) or transfer (gray) ladles.
Benton Foundry, Inc., Benton Pennsylvania by Modern Casting
Metal is taken away from the furnaces in 1000-2000 lb ladles mounted on ladle cars.
J.B. Foote Foundry Co., Inc., Fredericktown, Ohio by Modern Casting
 
 
 
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