By equipping a locomotive with a HOTSTART block heater, the prime mover can be shut down and easily restarted, even after days sitting in freezing weather. This eliminates the problems with idling including wasted fuel and oil, wet-stacking, emissions, noise and engine wear.
Visit HOTSTART at booth 402 in hall 20 during InnoTrans 2012 to learn how you can drastically reduce fuel and maintenance costs with HOTSTART idle reduction technology.