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Lars, lot's of questions with even more possible answers. When I was young (I'm 35 now...) I used to have a HO layout which was very basic. Just a 5x9ft piece of plywood with some track and buildings. I then added catenary. That was a fault. My cat just loved to play with all these fancy wires on the tiny posts. Well, supplying 220 Volts (I'm living in Europe) to the catenary just gave the cat this funny afro look... (I'm just kidding). When I started to work I had no time left for the hobby. It was on a trip to Western Canada when the fascination of huge trains hit me again. Back home I started to build a layout. I choose N-Scale because of the very limited space. Unfortunately my focus was on not spending to much money rather than on high quality products. Some (expensive) experiences later I threw all cheaper models (Model Power, Life Like, ConCor,...) in a carbage box. I'm only using the market leader products now (Kato, Micro-Trains, Atlas, Intermountain). Now whats DCC ? It's for trains what a dad is for children : just yell in your house and maybe someone is listening. That's what DCC is doing. Every locomotive has it's own receiver. Therefore just this engine is listening to your commands (speed up, slow down, turn on lights ..). If you don't want to spend crawling under your layout searching for short circuits then choose DCC. All you need is two wires to power your entire layout. There's one way to make all your locomotives listen : re-programm the decoders adress while all engines are on the track.... I managed to do this. 25 engines were listening on the same adress after. Thats quite funny. But all in all I'm very happy with N-Scale and DCC. But there's another more human aspect. Think of getting older. Maybe you're happy that HO-parts are much bigger than N-Scale. I know what I'm talking about. Next thing I'll buy are some extensions for my arms so I can see these little things again... If you find the time to visit my homepage you'll find some pictures of my N-Scale layout www.sschaer.homestead.com/sschaer_main.html have fun sandro
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