Michael,

 

The 1 thing that neither of us previously mentioned is capacity. I gave a
good surf around and did not see ONE thing about system output or decoder
capacity. That would be important to most people. They seem to be
concentrated on pretty new locomotives in HO only, that can plug their
decoder in easily. Not very flexible or accommodating to me.. I LIKE the big
NCE handle! Most buttons do 1 thing most of the time. Where is the emergency
stop on Rail Pro? 

 

As for the speed matching it was someone interesting but that is not a
problem for me. I usually run like units together and set them all to the
same address - no consisting is needed. Like units are prototypical for me
since I am not in "couple up and run it" Penn Central.. If I am running
different locomotives together I use separate handles like the real thing
with head end and helpers. Maybe Rail Pro could license the speed sensing
programming to NCE and call it a day!

 

There is some learning curve to DCC. I have said that you usually wind up
with the brand or DCC system that your closest friends have. I don't think I
have ever revisited a decoder to do extensive custom programming once the
first 45 second programming was done so that negates the "complexity" issues
touted by Rail Pro.

 

Thank You,
Bill Lane

Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988

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