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At 65 and started in the hobby 54 years ago when my dad bought me a Mantua shifter. (Everyone started out with a shifter.) I guess I qualify as an old fart. My third layout had "route cab control" with fifteen blocks, my fourth (current) is DCC and I wouldn't go back. It's so much easier to maintain and wire. Some of my old brass engines will probably never see a decoder but we do have zero stretching so they can run on the layout. <br /> <br />When I thought about DCC, I was also thinking about the cost and dragging my feet, but I don't run every loco every day. I started out by putting a harness in the locos and moving the decoder around to whatever I wanted to run. Then along came that dang company called <b>SOUNDTRAXX</b>, I currently have about 20 or 25 locos sounded. I've moved from 6 and 8 wheel drivers now to enclude early diesel so now all of the "B" units are sounded but I do this as I buy them. My 2-10-2's and 2-10-4's do not have decoders in them but they still run. <br /> <br />My first plastic locomotive was a Proto 2-8-8-2 and it was so simple to sound that I went out and purchased a second one. <br /> <br />When a good friend no longer wanted his SD75M, I ended up with it and that is what I run at the shows. It didn't cost that much to put sound in it. <br /> <br />New layout builders need to look at what is coming out in the marketplace. Five years ago you couldn't get a DCC loco and look at what's available now. My new 4-8-4 has DCC and sound and it <b>came</b> that way. <br /> <br />In answer to your question: I WOULD NEVER GO BACK TO DC. <br /> <br />Have a good day <br />Bob
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