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Originally Posted by NN5I
Interesting. I had read about just letting them idle so they wouldn't freeze -- but I didn't know they had wised up and found better ways to keep them warm. Glad to hear it.
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A good deal of that came from residents near the rail yards. We had a rail head with in 100' of our buildings and once they left 5 engines running for some thing close to 48 hours and we were pulling diesel smoke into our fresh air intakes I found the number in Boston that seem to get results a couple of years before and gave it to the Sheriff (his office was in the building) they were moved about 3 hours latter. Since then I was told that the systems have become automated because old habits die hard and the engineers would not turn them off so they did that them self's after a certain idle time.