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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Avondaleguy [br"FT" was the first EMD F-unit, and I think according to the above it meant "Freight-Thirteen (hundred horsepower)". [/quote] When EMC advertised the FT the descriptions were for a four unit Fifty four hundred horsepower locomotive or a two unit Twenty seven hundred horsepower locomotive. So the initials FT stand for the two horsepower levels that EMC intended. And remember, at the time all builders sold locomotives, not units. With the FTs you could not separate the A from the B easily as they were connected with a solid drawbar. In fact many roads numbered all four units of an FT with the same number and added a letter to keep track of each unit.
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