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<p>DCC is a journey. It is a language of numbers that flow as signals to and from your decoder equippted engines. It is sort of like the Scarecrow going to see Oz for a brain and recieving a doctorate without understanding how and why DCC works.</p><p>If you want to run one engine, DCC is simple. Enter address 03 and away you go!</p><p>Now two engines or more, you just got complicated. Cab numbers, numbers for different settings etc.</p><p>DCC is a pleasure, but if you lack grasp of the system you are working it will be Dante's Hell descending into lower and lower levels of frusteration and stress.</p><p>Keep in mind, people are stressed when they learn new things.</p><p>Look at the information that is out there about DCC. If you read one of the downloadable PDF's like a DCC manual from one of the manufactors; it might sound like gibberish. Take time to learn the different terms in the DCC world and understand what they mean.</p><p>It still takes two wires to run a whole railroad on DCC. It's the learning that is the tribulation.</p>
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