11-04-2016, 06:37 AM
I must say that my chnage to DCC was a great step in my modeling.
I don't own an own layout and 8ft test track is the only where my models can "run", back and for. So I love to run the models on the modular layouts with friends one or two times each year and there I stand outside again with my DC engines and trains of 1900 or 1930 because all friends are modern time modellers with diesels and DCC since years now! And the 1900 cars behind a diesel - no, this was not that what I would like to see.
I was lucky to hear a first time the sound of TCS WOW-sound decoders and the very prototypical BEMF sound where a steam loco runs almost without a sound while the loco or train rolls without power on a level track. This chnange of sound volumes were that what me has given back the expirience of a real steam loco. And so my trains came back into the reality, into the real live.
I think that this technology will not be changed in a short time. I think that we are in a phase of consolidation in present time and I'm sure that I can run my trains until I can not play with my trains. Ok, I would not like to make a further change in model railroading technology, however I'm sure that also this DCC system will be changed and developed, but never a general change to another new system? No, not in next ten years! And please not in my live!
I don't own an own layout and 8ft test track is the only where my models can "run", back and for. So I love to run the models on the modular layouts with friends one or two times each year and there I stand outside again with my DC engines and trains of 1900 or 1930 because all friends are modern time modellers with diesels and DCC since years now! And the 1900 cars behind a diesel - no, this was not that what I would like to see.
I was lucky to hear a first time the sound of TCS WOW-sound decoders and the very prototypical BEMF sound where a steam loco runs almost without a sound while the loco or train rolls without power on a level track. This chnange of sound volumes were that what me has given back the expirience of a real steam loco. And so my trains came back into the reality, into the real live.
I think that this technology will not be changed in a short time. I think that we are in a phase of consolidation in present time and I'm sure that I can run my trains until I can not play with my trains. Ok, I would not like to make a further change in model railroading technology, however I'm sure that also this DCC system will be changed and developed, but never a general change to another new system? No, not in next ten years! And please not in my live!
Cheers, Bernd
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Please visit also my website www.us-modelsof1900.de.
You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.