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Chile John

June 05, 2002 12:05PM

I can speak for the experience at CF&I in Pueblo. They had a narrow gauge line which hauled ingot cars from the arc furnace building to the rail mill where the ingots were stored in soaking pits. When the rail mill got its own arc furnace, they did away with the railroad entirely.
CJ

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Narrow Gauge steel mills	Ted Miles	June 04, 2002 10:03PM
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