O scale & structures

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Tom,

I am in a modular club that exhibits at several shows every year.  We have 
run straight DC, DCC, TMCC (Atlas Loco) and DCS (MTH loco's).

For the shows, the MTH loco's with DCS are very popular.  They look good 
from 3' away and the sound is very LOUD.  That's needed at a train show in a 
large room. It also has a number of nice features and is very advanced.

We have just started experimenting with TMCC, so no report on that yet.

DCC is used by several of the members on their home layouts, pluses are the 
relative availability of parts, it's an open system so there are lots of 
suppliers,  and it's easier to install in a brass locomotive.  Not as 
advanced as DCS (yet), but very good.  I have DCC on a few of my locos and 
will probably stick with it.  I am leery of any system that is only 
available from one company.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.  Lots of choices out there..  Hope this 
helps

Steve Kerr
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To:

Steve Kerr,
Tom Lewis,
Jimmy Lisle,
Michael Ross,
Christopher Smith,
Ron Timma,

Thank you all for responding.  Mike, yes, I do have your most recent 
article.  I'll look for your earlier ones.  Jimmy, no, I hadn't seen the 
caboose article.  Which issue is it in?  I hadn't realized until now that O 
Scale Trains has all back issues online as .pdf files.

No doubt you are all way ahead of me.  Currently I have no layout, one loco 
(Kohs Y6a) and three cars.  With my budget and the price of equipment, 
hopefully by the time I retire and have some serious time to spend, there'll 
be enough to equip a not-too-large layout.

Here's my question.  I'm thinking about joining a club in my area, Fox 
Valley O Scalers, to run the Y6a in the meantime.  They are exclusively DCC, 
so if I want to run it there, I'll need to have a decoder installed.  The 
impression I get is that DCC is not as established in O as it is in HO.  Do 
any of you guys use DCC, and what's been your experience with it?  In 
particular, know of any problems with installing it in Kohs products? 
George seems somewhat ambivalent towards it, maybe he just doesn't want to 
have to fix models with botched DCC installations!

Am also interested in hearing what era you guys are modeling.

Regards,

Tom Leuthner

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