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This sometimes gets a little heated, DCC is a personal choice. I am glad you are looking to DCC rather than DC. In much of the advice regarding which DCC is the best, and which is more popular, the best features are often left out of the argument. Personally, I chose Digitrax. I have a local club / hobby shop that provides excellent sales, and support. They even handle installs and training for customers. So the choice was fairly obvious for me. Digitrax has never let me down, and appears to have more features than I need right now, which gives me expansion and scalability. I started with the Empire Builder starter set, and upgraded to wireless at the time of purchase. I have to say, the wireless part is the best thing I ever invested in. I can "walk" my trains with no tether. So when a couple of us are running, we can step around each other, or turn and go get emergency tools (we are bulletproofing the track still, so if we find an issue we jump on it immediately.) without having to "hand off" our controller in case our second loco gets into trouble. Again, I personally think Digitrax has more going for it than I have seen from anyone else. But more importantly, I have a huge support from my LHS, which almost single handedly rules out all of the rest of the DCC offers. I walk in with a question, and my guys are familiar with every past purchase and how it works into the question. I use some Lenz decoders on the layout, and they interoperate just fine, except I am going to go to transponding, so the Lenz stuff will have to be replaced with Digitrax stuff, (no room in N Scale to add the transponding decoder to the Lenz, and it is integrated in all of the new Digitrax decoders.) So, look around you. See what you can "play" with. Get local answers. IN the event that there is no local support, then go Digitrax. If you find local Digitrax support, GO DIGITRAX. (but that is just my humble opinion.)
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