All --
There is nothing more pleasing to me than watching my operating crews using DCC
on my NYW&B. It's simply great (no other way to put it!) to see one train
entering Troy terminal while another is leaving it, while a switcher is
simultaneously making up a third train. The guys don't fiddle with any toggles
or block panels, only wireless throttles and turnout controls adjacent to the
turnouts themselves.
Yes, it cost me a lot of $$ to convert to DCC. My layout is 12 x 43 feet, has
75 turnouts and seven crossings, half a dozen auto-reversers, some 25
decoder-equipped locos, two wireless antennae, and five throttles. But I am so
relieved to be running trains instead of track. It had got to the point of me
forgetting how to operate my layout if -- heavens! -- I didn't run it at least
every other day. Now I can go on a two-week vacation, come home, power up, and
-- voila! -- No problems.
You want to read about (and thus avoid) my trials and tribulations during
conversion? Get ahold of "Thinking of DCC" in "Model Railroad News," April and
May 2009. Want to see how NYW&B operations are going with DCC? Read "So You
Want to Run a Railroad..." on page 40 in the August 2010 "NMRA Magazine."
I have no issues with those of you who want to stick with straight DC. It's
probably just right for small layouts and switching districts. As for string
--
Well, I have to admit that you can avoid ALL electrical problems if you use
string. You and your guests can operate trains simultaneously without toggles
(just like DCC).
Dick Karnes
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