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I'll be starting a new layout hopefully early next year (with a wonderful 4 month old son in my life, I'm quite happy saying progress has ground a dead stop - but there's always time for thinking and planning! - which I've been doing a lot of). I'm pretty sure I'll be wiring just a few blocks. The idea is the layout will be run with DCC. However, I want to be able to throw a switch to be back to DC. What do you do if your DCC system goes bad and you need to get it repaired, etc.? The thing extremely attractive about straight DC is that it's very easy to understand what's going on. Oh well, I'm used to using a computer on a daily basis. But I'm no fool - I don't trust the computer. I back up like a mad man. Likewise, I'd want my layout to have a backup plan if I ever get the urge to throw my DCC system out the window (not likely, but always a possibility). I think it's very interesting that Eric Brooman (who many would argue [including me] has one of the finest layouts in the hobby) doesn't use DCC. He uses DC, and is happy with it. I play the drums, and there are lots of electronic drums fans out there. For my money, there's nothing like slamming some real drums with drumsticks (or gently touching them with the tips of drumsticks, whatever the music calls for). This is sort of like DC. It's much more easy to understand what's going on - not a bunch of debugging, reading manuals, etc. Still, I'm sure I'll end up with DCC. But there's something undeniably cool about old school DC to me.
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