Ladle Car
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
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.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Iron is tapped into 1500-lb
ladle cars that double as tundish (ductile) or transfer (gray) ladles.
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