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My PC System is an five years old Machine:D with a Pentium4 3,2GHz, 3072MB 533MHz-DDR2 SDRAM and a 7600GT Graphic Card, and it's runs and runs and runs........

and I use Windows XP and TRS2007:)

Cheers Epo:)

Hi Epo,

Great shot! I wanted to PM you to ask a question, but you disabled PM/emailing...

I wanted to ask...how did you configure your 7600 GT? I've got the same video card and I have no idea how to configure it. :( I've got a very very similar system set up to you so your settings should work for me.

:wave:

Gisa ^^
 
Hi Epo,

Great shot! I wanted to PM you to ask a question, but you disabled PM/emailing...

I wanted to ask...how did you configure your 7600 GT? I've got the same video card and I have no idea how to configure it. :( I've got a very very similar system set up to you so your settings should work for me.

:wave:

Gisa ^^
I have almost close to your settings,exept my system however only has 2.88ghz, 1G and a Radeon 16000x Series AGP graphics card and it took me awhile to ocnfigure it too, even with the drivers! might i ask everyone something else too, i have TRS2006, does that also effect the graphics and performance aswell?
 
Don't forget this one...

:cool: E, as in E6, E7, E8, E9, started as the EA.

E, stood for Eighteen hundred horsepower.

SC-switcher cast-steel frame(to win over steam addicts, that used cast frames).

NW-switcher the W means Welded frame. The N meant Nine-hundred horsepower, but the rating was increased early on.

By the way, what does the T mean, in FT?
 
My PC System is an five years old Machine:D with a Pentium4 3,2GHz, 3072MB 533MHz-DDR2 SDRAM and a 7600GT Graphic Card, and it's runs and runs and runs........

and I use Windows XP and TRS2007:)

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Cheers Epo:)

Thank you. I too use Windows XP. But since I'm getting my computer rebuilt I have no idea whats going in. All I know for sure is that I will have at least a Nvidia 9500GT graphics card and Windows XP. My Grandpa bought all of the parts and I'm going over today to have him help me rebuilt it.

Matt
 
SC-switcher cast-steel frame(to win over steam addicts, that used cast frames).
NW-switcher the W means Welded frame. The N meant Nine-hundred horsepower, but the rating was increased early on.
By the way, what does the T mean, in FT?

The S in SC actually refered to 'six' as in six hundred horsepower. And of course the SW meant six hundred horsepower welded frame.

The original FT units were mostly delivered as AB units or ABA units connected together with semi permanent drawbars. Some roads insisted on couplers and those units were initially refered to by EMD as 'FS' units, or "seperable" units. One can speculate that the T originally meant "tied" or something like that. By 1945 the T and S designations were dropped. (So saith my diesel guide)
 
Hey George, the FT is still called the FT, as for the meaning of the T? Well, your guess is as good as mine!!!:wave: :wave: :wave:
 
Essex Clipper

The Essex Clipper Dinner Train on the home leg returning from Haddam/Goodspeed after there passengers enjoyed there dinners.
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Caught an sdl39 coasting down Edgerton hill.

From the control tower..
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He was told to wait for the auto train to roll through before he could cross the diamonds so I grabbed a couple more shots.

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Good one, Justin. I've been wondering about that myself. I thought FT stood for freight. My copy of Brian Solomon's book on the F units doesn't explain it...and he's usually pretty comprehensive. Since the E units, which came before the FT's, were passenger, I thought FT meant "this is the new freight one." Anyway, whatever it means, it was a revolutionary design...and marked the beginning of a new era.

Cheers,
Fred

P.S. I'm a big fan of steam as well as diesel...so I have mixed feelings about it. :D Regardless...that's what happened. Cheers again...Z
P.P.S. By the way, I'm actually old enough to have witnessed the transition from steam to diesel. Admittedly, I was only a small boy, but my grandparents lived across the street from the rail tracks in Flat River, MO...eat your hearts out youngsters...:D
 
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Hey George, the FT is still called the FT, as for the meaning of the T? Well, your guess is as good as mine!!!:wave: :wave: :wave:

The F in FT stood for Freight, and the T stood for Twenty-seven hundred horsepower.

And SW is Six Hundred horsepower, welded frame.
An NW2 is 900 horsepower, welded frame.

The F in F3 stands for, Full body cowl.
 
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