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 Aralai,things have certainly moved on since the late 1970´s. There is a lot more R-T-R equipment available and the level of detail has seen a step up improvement. Those can motors equipped with flywheels improved performance a lot as well, but the real killer is DCC and sound. As one forum member stated in an earlier thread, with DC you control the track, but with DCC you control the loco. Add sound to it, and you are as close to feeling like a real "train man" as you can get. With DCC, wiring has also become less effort.My turnouts will be manually operated. I am in the process of planning (not yet building) a small shelf-type switching layout with about 6 - 8 turnouts. I will be using Peco track, with sprung points, so I do not really motor-driven turnouts. With DCC, I don´t need to "assign" the current to a specific track, so I don´t need  a switch board. I do need other electronic gadgets, though. My layout will be a port scene, so I´d like to add the typical noise of a harbour, including that bone-shattering "keeyah" of the seagulls. For me, sound is the dimension that had been missing for so long.  Just listen to the new Bowser F-7a going through the starting routine, the rumble of those EMD prime movers is terrific. The only thing missing is black smoke belching from the exhaust stacks... [:D] All these features give you a complete new railroading feeling - you actually will need less track to get more enjoyment.Now I have to stop before I get carried away... [:P]
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