Folks, can some explain to me what DCC-Master(R) means? I ran into this on the Walthers site and can't seem to get an answer on it. I just now getting back into railroading and want to run my N scale on DCC as well my HO later. Thanks.
Outdoorsman
Just a product line name from Walthers. Given the price I would say it comes with a cut down budget decoder. Marketing speak, not technical speak.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
Most of us wouldn't recognize that term.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
outdoorsman58I just now getting back into railroading and want to run my N scale on DCC as well my HO later.
Hi, Outdoorsman and —
One site that you might find helpful is the DCC Wiki:
https://dccwiki.com/Main_Page
You can sort through articles here that explain some basics. It is a lot to comprehend at first.
Hopefully this will help you get a grasp of the basics.
Regards, Ed
The '' [R]'' make me think ,a brand or trade nane. I never heard of DCC Master,but that don't mean nothing .
Well the old Atlas DCC system was the Atlas DCC Master. Where this falls within the Walthers products is anyone's guess. It's like everyone else - Atlas has Gold and Silver and Trainman.
outdoorsman58 Folks, can some explain to me what DCC-Master(R) means? I ran into this on the Walthers site and can't seem to get an answer on it. I just now getting back into railroading and want to run my N scale on DCC as well my HO later. Thanks. Outdoorsman
I see the Walthers search is on the ball too. It completely missed the N scale ones like this:
https://www.walthers.com/ge-dash-8-40c-w-dcc-master-r-ferrocarriles-nacionales-de-mexico-fnm-15014-2-tone-blue-orange-white
But whatever I looked up and found didn't seem to say anything about Atlas.
I've notice the one constant thing about Walthers search, it's a good list of things out of stock, discontinued, sold out, on back order, or special order.
Having their product number doesn't help much.
Mike.
My You Tube
rrinker I see the Walthers search is on the ball too. It completely missed the N scale ones like this: https://www.walthers.com/ge-dash-8-40c-w-dcc-master-r-ferrocarriles-nacionales-de-mexico-fnm-15014-2-tone-blue-orange-white But whatever I looked up and found didn't seem to say anything about Atlas. --Randy
Yeah, the Walthers search function (and their product descriptions) seems to be somewhat random.
My search was for "DCC-Master(R)" (no spaces) as it appeared in the original post, and I got nine hits.
But searching for "DCC - Master(R)", with spaces before and after the dash, gives no results whatsoever. And as Randy noted, no N-scale results in either search.
But the vagarities of the search notwithstanding, the phrase the OP was asking about is still nothing more than a snippet of the way Walthers has described at least some DCC sound-equipped Master-series Atlas locos.
Well if you want to run N scale, then you shouldn't worry about it, since Walthers does not make any products for N scalers -- at least not intentionally