DCC choices - Digitrax or NCE???

[ChrisNH]

Real engineers don't throw turnouts by pressing a button on their cab panel.

 

Like real engineers walk around holding a TV remote pushing buttons to run their trains.....oops, I guess some do on remote locos.

LOL.. and real engineers don't have to worry about giant fingers descending from the sky and knocking over telephone poles. 

My DCC switches are my little conductor.. and I know how to push all his buttons! Because real engineers always have someone else, dispatcher or conductor, to throw the turnout.

The main down side is having to look at the throttle. I do plan to have facia controls as well so that the user can choose to do it either "star trek" style or "20,000 leagues" style.

Chris 

[jbinkley60]

Funny, nobody mentioned the fact that the DT400 has two power knobs. This is what I like most about it. If somebody did mentioned it, I missed it.

And you can go change turnouts without disrupting either locomotive under control.

I can change turnouts now without disrupting my locos -- that's why I think it makes more sense to just put a switch on the fascia near the turnout instead of trying to control everything on the layout star trek style with DCC.

Real engineers don't throw turnouts by pressing a button on their cab panel. 

Real engineers ?  How nice.  I prefer using cascaded routes in my yard.  I find it a lot easier to dial up a route and have 5-6 switch machines move in the right direction instead of flipping 5-6 switches on a panel to manuver a locomotive through my yard.  Wasn't a main advantage of NCE supposedly ease of use ?