Product Features and Details
Prototype: Privately owned car, used on the German Railroad, Inc. (DB AG). Built starting in 1967. Use: Transporting molten crude iron.
Model: Era V. The torpedo and the truck bridge assemblies are constructed of metal. The handrails are finely reproduced. The torpedo ladle is mounted so that it can be turned. The car has NEM coupler pockets and a close coupler mechanism. Length over buffers 390 mm / 15-3/8".
These cars have a prototypical high weight with a high center of gravity. For that reason no more than 3 cars should be run in a train on a route with many grades.
One-time series for the theme "From Ore to Steel".
The main product of a blast furnace is molten crude iron. It is transported in torpedo ladle cars to be processed further in a steel plant. The prototype of our model is an 18-axle special car with an authorized total weight of 360 metric tons. The interior of the torpedo ladle container is lined with fireproof brick, so that the 1,350° Centigrade / 2,462° Fahrenheit hot load does not cool down and so that the torpedo ladle container does not melt through. Often, there are two to three of these cars in a train. Two-axle, empty freight cars are placed between the torpedo ladle cars to keep from exceeding the authorized load on railroad bridges.
