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UUUUmmmm, you might just have the wrong system, or not know how to use it to it's full function. My Digitrax does have momentum, and acceleration, and the sound equipped locos have throttle notches proportional to the speed, along with dynamic and air braking sounds when the functions are activated. Many decoders offer dynamic braking function, and most offer Kickstart that will give you some wheel slip. You can control the speed curve through programming CV's, the book even has values for prototypical operation of different kinds of locos. As for the throttles, I imagine Digitrax would like to hear input from people, and that could be the next product offered, I think the idea is pretty cool personally, and should market decently well, of course you're still going to have to have a digital screen and a whole crapload of buttons to offer all of the functions, and it'd be really hard to carry around in your pocket, but nonetheless it would be cool as a main control. Have you been in modern locomotives? The ones I've seen have no throttle lever, it's just a computer screen in front of the engineer that shows whatever they want, much like your Digitax handheld would (assuming you've added one to your Zephyr). The sound is really prototypical if you ask me, air activation on the bells, random air pumps, shutdown levels that even include the doors opening and shutting. The lights are pretty impressive too, alternating ditch lights at the touch of a button and directional head and tail lights that you can program to do whatever you want? I can't see how you can knock that. Seems to me you need to pull out the instruction manual and get some more experience before you talk about how bad it is. Okay, I'm done now, Greg
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