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Buenas tardes RojoJefe, Save your money, forget the NMRA. The fee is big, the benefits are nil. At least for us modelers. NMRA stands for National Model Rail-road- Association, -not- Model Railroa-ders-. They don't cater to individuals. All what they do is their own marketing, to get always more members and more money. Nothing else. "Give us your money, and you will be a better modeler". The NMRA does two things good: They have this huge library someone else told you about. What he forgets to tell you is that members can get photocopies of any page(s) of any book or magazine they have in the library. Very nice to get an article from a very old magazine. But non-members can get them too, so why bother. The second thing the NMRA does well, is their sets of standards (what they call "recommended practices", never mind). As for the DCC, sorry, they did almost nothing. Lenz gave its patents to the NMRA, which has just done Lenz's marketing. But the Lenz system is very good, so modelers don't loose on the way. Surprisingly, if one e-mails Lenz, they get an answer from a lady that has the same name as the technical leader of the NMRA DCC group. No, I say nothing more. But don't tell me that the NMRA is a leader in DCC. And their "Bulletin" is write in such a pusillanimous way that only "good-public" readers will not recognize what looks like a fear to not unplease any manufacturer or anybody else. I used to be a member for a year, but I resigned after I quickly realized that my money would be so better used instead on my layout. I have been followed-up for a while by a few guys, like the Mormons do. I even received an injunction to renew my membership, but I stayed put. Un saludo
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