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Technological Gadgets for Model Railroading - where to draw the line?
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I do like Joe's recommendation - adding on slowly over time. <br /> <br />The difficulty is what tatans is talking about - things change so fast now. <br /> <br />It's like I said - you walk into Best Buy, and the amount of electronic gadgets in there is simply overwhelming. It seems as if if this type of rapid technology growth is happening to our hobby too. <br /> <br />I've accepted this in my professional life - I simply will HAVE TO buy a new computer every couple years. It's like what buying paper & pencils must have been like for my parents' generation. <br /> <br />But I don't want to do this with my hobby! Once I buy a locomotive, I want that thing to be around for 40 or 50 more years for me to enjoy. But with the way things are going, it seems this may only work if I draw limits. <br /> <br />If I were to try to go all-out and get the newest gadgets in locomotives, they could be facing obsolescence in the future. <br /> <br />I think I could live with having to buy a new DCC system every 5-10 years (the advantages seem pretty clear). But all the gadgets that go along with it seems like it would be too much to keep up with. <br /> <br />And Joe - I do like your "test-bed" approach. I may very well be in that zone for a while. With a baby on the way, hobby time is few and far between. (getting on the forum is easy - it's easy to get on while working - getting hands on trains is more difficult!). <br /> <br />Part of my "test-bed" layout will be learning to handlay turnouts. I've done one so far, and by gosh, it worked! <br /> <br />Next item of business: track plan.
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