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[quote user="Howard Zane"]..but the newly retired looking for a hobby to fill their upcoming years were the ones whom I found to be intimidated by under bench activities.[/quote] A possible solution is to stop showing them your under bench areas.... [quote user="Howard Zane"]Over the decades, I learned that simplicity wins hands down[/quote] This: [quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]You buy a NCE system, hook two wires to a loop of track, plug it in to the wall, and off you go![/quote] They will learn the rest later.   [quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]AND, there is nothing wrong with a beginner starting out with DC[/quote] Also just two wires for running in a circle. Also this: [quote user="BRAKIE"]Its not the complexity of DCC or a DC layout its modelers making a fuss over nothing by saying or in some cases bragging how much work is in their layout or that engine cost (fill the blank).[/quote] I would say that the majority of model railroaders (I am guilty of this as well, but I am fixing this), end up with a rats nest of wiring under the layout that would frighten a seasoned electrical engineer. The best layout wiring I have seen was an L-girder layout with risers without scenery.  The guy has all his track laid and ran his main power bus right along with the track, no crawling under, all his wiring was done standing up (at least on the upper level, there is a staging yard).   The worst is on club owned modules where 3 different people have applied their interpretation of how wiring should be done over each other.  Results in wiring going everywere, running to terminal strips that just feed back to the main bus, etc...
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