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Antonio, we have a real mix - Gaugemaster (who have been the big name in analog control for years - their Model D is a benchmark power pack) are now offering what appears to be a rebadged Prodigy advance, and a few dealers import Digitrax et al. Lenz seems to have become dominant on the control side though Bachmann are making friends with their E Z DCC - many modellers over here run smaller layouts that don't need much power or many addresses. What I have noticed is that decoders seem to be more varied - we get pretty much the same ones as you do, and people seem inclined to use different manufacturers products to suit different applications. Lenz don't do much in the way of tiny decoders for example, so if you want to DCC a small steamer you need to find someone else - TCS in particular do well here. ZTC are the "home team" as it were but their prices are scary - they offer very nice all-metal control desk units but the price is well above that of a top of the line Lenz set. Bottom line, nobody else seems to be able to compete with Lenz here on value - their top of the range set is only a little more than other starter sets. <br /> <br />Roco's DCC system is also popular to some extent, mainly as it offers the best value available (starter set with loco, 2 cars, loop of track and all DCC control gear is £100 - you can only just buy a Lenz Compact and transformer to run it for that much, the Roco set does much the same and can be expanded in much the same way, the two even share a common command bus). Hopefully Roco will be producing plenty of the sets as I was rather hoping to get hold of one before they ran into financial problems, with any luck they'll be reintroduced soon though. The Lok-Maus is a very neat handheld throttle that should plug straight into the Compact I use.
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