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I third the leaning.Keep in mind that DCC is a journey, not the means to a end. All you are going is putting a computer inside a locomotive and telling it to turn the motor very fast, very slow, not at all (Even though there might be voltage on that track) or speak to you the status of the engine in certain situations known as programming.It starts with a binary switch ZERO or 0 = "OFF" and a Binary switch ONE or 1 for on.Do you want the head light on or off? In DCC it might be a function key on a throttle very much like you have on your keyboard at the computer.That should ease you into the journey and the possibilities. I know enough to stay away from trying to install decoders. I buy my engines factory equippted with one main provider called QSI to keep things simple in the railroad room. I still have a place for analog engines but I keep just one SD7 from Proto that is for testing during track construction so I dont burn up a 400 dollar engine trying to get the feeders to work.Generally prices have fallen 30 to 50% in the last 5 years and expect it to fall further each few years just like computers did in the last 10 years and is increasing rates of hardware power versus cost.Example will be a 700 dollar DVD player way back when. You can get one for 15 dollars today. (A computer DVD drive)
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