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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by robengland I gave Marklin to my son. It's great for kids due to the easy wiring and the tough construction of the trains (though his friends managed to destroy his 0-6-0 switcher in 15 minutes of unsupervised play[:(!][:(!][:(!]). Save yours for your (future?) kids. All the above criticsims: unrealistic track, limited manufacturers, expensive. To which i would add poor detailing relative to the other gear available today. Unless you are modelling a German prototype, go two-rail. But my personal advice is don't go DC, go DCC (which is a different form of AC on two rails not three like Marklin [:D] - confused yet?). See all the other threads for the DCC pros/cons arguements, but when starting out is the time to do it I reckon, instead of trying to convert later. I've had Marklin AC, HO DC, N DC and HO DCC, and I'm sticking with the latter. On Monday we got a diesel loco under the control of a software throttle running on an old Pentium PC and that was the coolest thing I have seen for a long time... I live in New Zealand (And I lived in HK for two years, in Sai Ying Pun [:)]). Local hobby shops are not much of an issue, though i am blessed with one good one. I buy second-hand gear from him and a little bit of new when I need somethign urgently, but most of my discussion, learning, info and purchasing is via the web. The internet has transformed this hobby. With Google and Paypal anything is possible from anywhere in the world. I buy track from Germany and DCC from a guy in Pennsylvania or from Tonystrains.com or rrcirkits.com, and rolling stock from a guy in Hamilton NZ. And I have filled a whole library with info downloaded via Google searching. [/quote] Hi, many thanks for the help. Yes, I'll go DCC and will be scratching my head over the next couple of weeks on what to do with my 2 AC locomotives. Unlike you, I only have a 2 year old girl. Doubt she will be going into model trains, though she likes messing around with my trains at the moment :-) So which DC loco manufacturer would you recommend? I know this can be subjective, but it wouldn't hurt collecting more views.
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