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Völklingen Classic
A train of liquid iron-laden sixteen-axled cars in front of the impressing setting of Völklingen metallurgical plant, long since shut down and made a world cultural heritage.
The liquid iron however is now transported from the steel mill at Dillingen to Völklingen and the nearby rolling plant where it is further processed to a broad amount of (mostly) semifinished steel products.
These trains run on a roughly two hour schedule day and night, 7/7, 365/12.
Each of these cars is 30 m long and is capable of a 192 t load of liquid iron, no challenge for an engine like the 151 class.
The train in this image has a total weight of ± 2000 t.
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Völklingen Classic
A train of liquid iron-laden sixteen-axled cars in front of the impressing setting of Völklingen metallurgical plant, long since shut down and made a world cultural heritage.
The liquid iron however is now transported from the steel mill at Dillingen to Völklingen and the nearby rolling plant where it is further processed to a broad amount of (mostly) semifinished steel products.
These trains run on a roughly two hour schedule day and night, 7/7, 365/12.
Each of these cars is 30 m long and is capable of a 192 t load of liquid iron, no challenge for an engine like the 151 class.
The train in this image has a total weight of ± 2000 t.
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