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Sort of on topic - I was reading about a time that up in nothern BC the weather got so cold that even though the engine was still running the liquid in the governor started to gel. So the engineer was sitting in the cab and the loco would suddenly start excelerating and decelerating all on it's own because the governor was all screwed up and not running proberly. Needless to say they gave up and called it quits for the day. More modern locos are becoming more "off and on" friendly. I believe there are now some out there that have anyfreeze, no? It seems to me that it's more the attitude of the railway employees for not bothering to shut the units down. Over at BC Rail they keep their idle locos running all the time (usually in sets of 3 dash 8s or dash 9s, five or six road loco's idling at a time) even though they arrived at the North Van yard at 6:00 in the morning and won't be used again till 3:00 in the afternoon. Every gallon of gas adds up.
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