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Wall Street Journal Article - End of the Model Trains
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<p>[quote user="azrail"]DCC is still confusing to the newbie, and it is still a confusing, unreliable system[/quote]</p> <p>What´s confusing about feeding two wires to the track and selecting a loco address? Your mobile phone is much more complicated to operate. DCC is around for over 20 years now and it is very reliable. DCC (w/o sound) adds only very little to the cost of an engine and a good quality entry level DCC system does not cost much more than a good quality DC power pack these days.</p> <p>I don´t think that´s the reason why supposedly there seems to be no next generation model railroaders. IMHO, we have only a view from a very narrow perspective as "serious MRR´s" to the hobby. I bet there are quite a few people (adults and kids) out there, who have a layout of some sort and enjoy it, but see it as a toy to have fun with rather than a lifestyle, as we tend to see it.</p>
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