Cold start
budding · planted 2025-01 · tended 2025-01
At minus 25 a diesel is never switched off. In the depot a locomotive will idle all night, to keep the oil and the coolant from freezing, and the fuel bill for those nights is higher than a month of summer. The depot foreman says it is like keeping a horse in the stable: you pay for it even when it does nothing.
We say "to put a cold one on the line" for a hopeless job. See Diesel, no wires and Winter running.
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