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Whew... I was thinking this is for a home set up. But a big time club.. that is a tough question. If this was a home layout I would just leave all the DC infrastructure intact and run new a new bus for DCC next to the old DC bus under the tracks. In effect simply supply a route for the DCC to feed the rails, switches and reversers (If any) You could create dedicated "dead" tracks for analog DC equiptment to hide away from the DCC activity. Run that analog engine onto that dead track and kill the current. Then the rest of the layout can run DCC until everyone was done with the session. It should not matter what is ALREADY on the layout when you show up to hook that brand new DCC system on it. Just check your reversing loops and switches with it's own power feed away from the old Analog infrastructure. That is the extent of my idea. I feel that I am not qualified to address such a large issue facing your club.
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