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Re: Coolent in locomotives
Author: The MAN
Date: 10-20-2007 - 22:44

It's spelled COOLANT...and the block has freeze protection and will dump the coolant (water only on BNSF) to the ground below a set perameter. Otherwise, yes, you'd have to keep the engine idling all the time (in freezing weather) and burn up all that fuel...and what if things went wrong and it COULDN'T be kept running??? Not only would you have a shut down engine for whatever reason, but you might have a CRACKED BLOCK, too! So there ya go! No ethylene glycol because it might not protect EVERYTHING in -30 freezing weather, anyway- plus, it gets expensive over a fleet of several hundred locomotives. Just auto-drain the block if it freezes...

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  Coolent in locomotives David Maxwell 10-18-2007 - 17:28
  Re: Coolent in locomotives George Andrews 10-18-2007 - 18:06
  Re: Coolent in locomotives George Andrews 10-18-2007 - 18:17
  Re: Coolent in locomotives WAF 10-18-2007 - 18:36
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Bruce Bennett 10-18-2007 - 18:45
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Rich Hunn 10-18-2007 - 18:48
  Re: Coolent in locomotives ST2-K 10-18-2007 - 20:26
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Dave Buccolo 10-18-2007 - 20:27
  Re: Coolent in locomotives shortline sammie 10-19-2007 - 07:58
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Butler 10-19-2007 - 08:32
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Rich Hunn 10-19-2007 - 08:39
  running on fewer cylinders Butler 10-20-2007 - 09:22
  Re: running on fewer cylinders Ross Hall 10-22-2007 - 17:37
  Re: Coolent in locomotives mjgermer 10-19-2007 - 10:36
  Re: Coolent in locomotives David Maxwell 10-19-2007 - 11:08
  Re: Coolent in locomotives George Andrews 10-19-2007 - 14:22
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Rich Hunn 10-19-2007 - 16:25
  Re: Coolent in locomotives/Radiator Fans almo 10-19-2007 - 22:28
  Re: Coolent in locomotives The MAN 10-20-2007 - 22:44
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Known Shop Drinker 10-21-2007 - 17:52
  Re: Coolent in locomotives (another another) Known Shop Drinker 10-22-2007 - 02:53
  Re: Coolent in locomotives Britfoamer 10-22-2007 - 03:17


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