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What does one do when you take over a slower or stopped loco when running a much faster loco in DCC? Picture this scenario: Train 123 is the mainline consist that you are controlling with your throttle. It's running at 60 MPH scale speed. You also have a small switcher in the yard that is stopped. The yard is crowded so there's not much room for high speed antics. Remember, your throttle is controlling Train 123. Now you want to do some yard work. As soon as you switch to the switcher it will try to assume the speed of Train 123. Since there isn't much room in the yard, the switcher takes off crashing into everything until you can grab the knob and turn down the speed. How does one handle this situation? I can see some "solutions": A) Slow Train 123 down to yard speed or stop it altogether before switching. This is so unprototypical. B) Switch to the switcher and quickly turn down the speed knob. Now this becomes a game of reflex and reaction timing. This can't be fun at all. :) C) Spend $65 to get a UT4 throttle (I have a Zephyr) and use that throttle for slow stuff. Now you have two throttles, one for similar high speed trains and the other for similar low speed trains. Now when you switch there's not much speed differential. Are there better solutions? What do people do in these typical circumstances?
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