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Hi folks: Anyone have the slightest idea how to remove a video card from a 9 year old Alienware Aurora tower? Manual tells you how to remove everything else but when it comes to the video card it says zip. Alienware is no help as the first thing they ask for is your warranty number (on a 9...

Hi Folks: If anyone has been trying to contact me I just got out of the hospital after 4 days (stomach ulcer). Meds will make me a bit lethargic so "production" of things for folks will be a bit slow for a while. Prognosis is fine but will take a while. They really did wake me up in the middle...

Hi Gents: What would be the average capacity (in pounds or tons) and the weight of the empty car for a D&RGW standard gauge 40 ft boxcar circa 1900 to 1940? Thanks, Ben

My fellow Trainzers: This thread is intended to be a serious discussion on the use and configuration of SLI capable video cards. Please do not let it degenerate into an argument about what users can, and can not, afford or what N3V should, or should not do, about SLI. I am fully aware no...

Hi Folks: I've subscribed to this magazine for 10 or more years. I got a renewal notice in the mail this morning and it looks a tad suspicious. According to it NG&SLG has been bought from Benchmark Productions, LTD (in Canada I think) by White River Productions in Bucklin, MO. Nothing wrong...

Hi Folks: A few years ago I bought the model railroader 75-year collection DVD set and also the DVD set by Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette (both well worth the $$$). I was wondering if any of you who also bought one or both have heard anything about either being updated. To my way of...

Hi folks: Like a number of us I bought the Model Railroader 75th anniversary DVD set. No regrets - its great. Its been 5 or so years since it first came out and I was wondering if anyone has heard about them offering an update to the set. Every year would seem a bit too often whereas every 10...

The Uintah 2-6-6-2T has been available for quite some time but its conversion from a tank loco to a tender loco has (as far as I know) never been made for Trainz. I was looking for something else and came across a set of plans and a few photos of SV #251 2-6-6-2 on pages 54, 55, and 56 in the...

Hi Folks: Anyone running one of these new 4K monitors with Trainz? I'm wondering if the higher resolution is worth the extra bucks and are there any special requirements or problems with Trainz on a 4K monitor. Thanks, Ben

Hi Folks: I see in various ads computers offered with the option of 2 and even 3 video cards. Are all of them used at the same time feeding a single monitor or does each feed a separate monitor? What are the advantages - disadvantages (other then $$$), etc. Thanks, Ben

Mods - if this is the wrong area please move it - thanks. I'm sure a lot of you have heard Microsoft is (sort of) trying to get everyone to switch to Windows 10 whether you want it or not. Incessant pop ups and reminders on your computer and so on. Along those lines I have noticed the sudden...

Hi Folks: Anyone heard how it going? Yea or nay - good or bad. Just curious. Ben

Hi Ya'll: Just got my system back up and running. A lot has changed so it will be a few days befor I get my feeble brain wrapped around a new e-mail system. I managed to lose my old e-mail address list (among a lot of other things) so those of you I had things ongoing will need to send me your...

Hi Folks: Just a bit of a heads up about a DVD set for Narrow Gauge & Shortline Gazette Magazine. Same idea as the one Model Railroader Magazine came out with a year or so ago. Contains 239 issues of NG&SLG, 57 issues of Finelines Magazine, and 18 issues of Slim Gauge News Magazine. Ad is on...

Hi Folks: I've been looking round for projects to work on while I'm offline (moving from Florida to Tennessee) and came across what looks to be a single track steel arch bridge labeled as being on the Rio Grande Southern. The photos seems to show a K-series (2-8-2) on the bridge and I know the...