an inexpensive option
I have been looking around, but DCC has really eaten into the DC options easily available ; ant the first several options I ran into were expense, but I found an relatively inexpensive one.
In the current Walther's catalog, Scale shops offers a hand held 1.5 amp throttle kit 649-1316 for $39.98, or assembled 6491316 for $69.96
the MRC control Master 20, like I have at the club Walther's number 500-444 $249.98 is an excellent throttle with memory walkaround you can unplug the hand held, and your locomotive will kee running at the last setting until the controller is plugged back in. The base unit has a loud cooling fan, so if you like quiet you would have to locate it remotely. the hand held uses a phone wire plug, so it is easy to mount phone jacks around the layout, wire them to the base unit, and you can plug in the remote throttle in several locations.
I use my MRC unit at the club, because the innovator 200, which I use at hove, also has phone plugs, and if you plug a control master throttle int to an phone jack hooked up to the innovator base, you will let the smoke out of the MRC hand held, which in accordance with the smoke theory of electronics, renders the MRC hand held inoperable.
I am studying the MRC tech 6 and hand held for addition to my systen (it has sound controls for dual mode decoders built in). this is not a cheap option, and will run over $200. but will provide sound support for the HOn3 Blackstone c-19 I will be receiving soon.
I will try to do some research and see if the GML units I use on my RR are still available. they are very nice, have memory features, plug in with a headphone jack, and have momentum and braking freatures.
Bill Nelson