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[quote user="rrinker"]It's no different than DC - you just run them together. All this fancy electroniuc speedometer and automatic speed matching script stuff in JMRI - it's not necessary! Just like DC, close is good enough.[/quote] That is a matter of opinion.  If you are trying to DPU, speed matching is extremely important, otherwise you will shove that $50+ piece of rolling stock right into your $30 brass signal.  And its a real pain with older locomotives whose manufacturers liked to play the gear ratio of the day game at the factory.  Not going to go into the mechanical problems that will likely arise within the locomotives themselves over time.     [quote user="rrinker"](we don;t allow the facier consisting on the club layout)[/quote]   Just for curiosity's sake, why not?  Does no harm to Advance consist (at least with NCE, no experience outside of their system, and the consisting is quite intuitive). The only thing that happens regularly is people forget to de-consist their locomotives and they have to factory reset them (because we delete all consists at the end of a show, locomotives on the track or not).  As for the Blurail, I have no need of it, and cannot fathom a reason to pay $75 to put a decoder that has no sound files, and not even the correct sound files in the Iphone app, into a locomotive so that I can operate that one locomotive by itself.  Why not just buy this: <a href="http://www.digitrax.com/products/sound-decoders/sdxh166d/">http://www.digitrax.com/products/sound-decoders/sdxh166d/</a>  Also costs $75 and you dont need to remember to charge your phone or your train..... Additionally, has Bachmann considered that this might be slightly irresponsible from a marketing to new model railroaders aspect?  I would be irritated bordering on downright incensed if I were to buy a close to $300 starter set, then tried to add another manufacturers locomotive, only that to find out that they wont work out of the box without modification?
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