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I'm getting the feeling that DCC is the way to go, I've been reading the Loy's Toys website that so many of you have mentioned and I thank all of you for your valuable input and advice. <br />Let me fill in a couple of blanks on what I'll be working with ... about 3 yrs ago I went to a auction, you know the 'get a number and stand in the cold and wind' type. And this box lot of "toy trains" came up and no one was bidding. So I made a insulting low bid to start things off and SOLD! I have over 25 engines, 100+ rolling stock, dozens of unbuilt structures, and what looks like miles of track. Since there was a relocation in the works this mass of trains sat motionless and forgotten. With the move complete, and the realization that we have to much stuff I decided I'd sell them. So out of all the stuff there was no power pack, so I ran out and picked up a Tech4 350 power pack set up a little circle on my desk to test the engines. Well, as I watched these little trains chug in a endless circle I was taken back to watching my first Lionel as a child do the same thing. Needless to say the thought of selling vanished and the vision of a layout begun, now a year later the space and a little time is there to tackle this idea. So the 4X8 layout, is still on paper is being designed and re-designed and re-designed again. Clearly a 4X8 will not be large enough to handle that many trains, thus the plan to expand after I get most of my mistakes out of the way. Hopefully most of the mistakes, I'm sure there will be many. <br />So from what I've read of DCC and the your comments, it would be much easier to expand a DCC layout and control large numbers of trains as I understand it. Not that I plan on having that many trains running at once, I believe it would look a little cramped. I know, I still have a great deal of reading and learning to do. It's been nearly 30 years since I've been in the hobby and it's great to see so many in to it and willing to help those of us either returning after a long break, or those new for the first time. It has changed a great deal and I have a lot of catching up to do. I look forward to more of the advice from those of you current in the hobbie. Thanks again! <br /> <br />Dave
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