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It would be more correct to say you only have one THROTTLE for running DC locos under DCC. You can consist several DC locos, for instance, (I also have steep grades) and that is fairly common for me to do. You COULD run more than one DC loco seperately as well, but it is tricky.  Also, keep in mind, if you have DC locos, you can PARK it anywhere on the layout while running your DCC locos (and vice versa). So there's more advantage than you might think. I'd love to have all my DC locos converted to DCC, but N scale small steam is very hard to do. Not impossible, but I havent completely figured out how, yet. And there really are NO N scale small steam available out of the box NOW (Atlas has announced their Shay and are taking orders). I have several small N scale steam that I have had converted. I am slowly getting there. I have one with sound! It's all possible with enough time and money....I've been told that it's not practical or advisable to run both DC and DCC locos on a layout together. Usually by someone at a hobby store that either has never run DCC locos and in one case by someone who himself in his hobby store is set up to run both!! After I pointed that out to him  he said yes, but we have to because we have both DC and DCC locos. Well I'll be darned....With HO they have a point, but with N scale DCC is more limited. Anyway, it's possible to do what I'm doing. I know cause I'm doing it!!!
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