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Secrets are not good.My spouse and I dont hide train stuff. In fact my DCC system was a gift one year during the holidays. We had a pretty good year and had a little extra left over for it without touching the everyday budget or bills.These days when a major purchase comes up, I usually put X dollars away each month into savings and voila! It's done.I use JMRI on the computer now which connects with my loconet from the computer and it has been a great help towards corraling my sometimes onery set of engines much easier too than a world of binary that I learned in college.As far as a analogy well... how bout this?Old style V8 engine or Desiel that breathes air through a carburetor (Spelling?) or turbo and requires rather basic working to function. You could maintain and fix this engine with a standard toolbox from Sears.Today's engines just need a button pushed to start with just about all of the things that could go wrong removed from the owner's mind by computer. Any problems require a workshop with fancy computers and all sorts of expensive electronics before understanding what repairs are needed.Sometimes that computer tried to shut my rig down being just a little short of coolant. Takes a paper clip on the sensor to force it to "Think" there is plenty of coolant and bypass some of this... this... fancy junk technology.In fact, I recently took down the rabbit ears and replaced them with a converter box to recieve DTV signals to supplement my satellite box because the USA will quit transmitting analog tv in early 2009 pernamently.
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