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You jump start a locomotive just like a car. We carry a set of jumper cables on every loco that are about 50 feet long. The hardest part is getting them side by side if you're not near a yard or siding, but then you just hook the cables up to the battery switches and fire it up. We have a pair of F7-A's, that for whatever reason have odd sized batteries. So we once left one running for 6 months straight until the new batteries could be custom made and shipped. <br /> As far as idiling goes, the newer units are great. The new emd SD70ACe's have an autostart feature that starts the engine when the water temp. drops, the battery charge becomes low, or the air pressure drops. Idiling older units is just easier than starting and shutting them down all the time, and the coolant heaters and circulators work pretty well in the winter, as long as you have a place to plug them in all the time. The only problem we ever have with the plug in heaters and circulators, is freezing heater pipes in the cab and nose. The pumps don't push hard enough in extremely cold weather(-20) and the pipes under the cab will freeze most of the time without breaking. Until the engine is started and then the pipes will usually break and drop all of the water out of the engine
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