Automatic cardumping system 12 times faster than system it replaced, has effectively doubled capacity of 74-mi railroad for hauling high grade iron ore pellets to Taconite Harbor, Minn; with new system, bottom-dump railroad cars are opened by automobile tires, mounted on right hand side (in direction of movement) of each car, riding over inverted rails; because train never stops, 100-car train can be dumped in as little as 5-min.
New device dumps 120 RR cars in sixteen minutes at erie mining co
Eng Min J
Engineering and Mining Journal ; 163 , n 7
1962
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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