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Dont worry too much about holding the attention of the kids. The trains will do that especially now that each child seems to have a dedicated train that he or she "Owns" A layout that is able to run both trains on speperate paths may reduce the sibling.. "I wanna run my train now!" DCC will be the saving grace once you address your locos. I knew nothing about DCC until a friend showed me how to run it with my new broadway steamer and within a few hours I was up and running rather well with the swithces and all on the Digitrax. Yes it is expensive that probably will be my purchase this upcoming christmas in lieu of motive power. The Overton cars are out of production and very difficult for me to get. I have a specific set I am looking for but not found it yet for the right price. Perhaps Harriman cars or walthers "Trainline" passenger cars may fit your needs without being too expensive. Your club layout will probably assist in holding the kid's interest as they may have literally a "Buzz" of activity to feed on. I recall visiting the BSME as a child and as long they had at least one train running there was something to watch I was fine. You may feel like you are going "fast" and I think you may be.. but you sound like you are having a good time with the children being involved in the trains and that is good. I hope that they will learn from you how to take care of things and perhaps be trusted in bigger (read expensive) things in the future. I dont know of anything on the forums that has to do with how slow or how fast one should get into the hobby. I think whatever fits is good. I like it slow. But that is me.
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