I use to have DCC. I went back to DC. Why? It's a big waste of money if you are the only one operating your layout. Even if your freind comes over it's still rather a waste. It's one of them keep up with the Johnsons things for most I think. SO... you spend X dollars for the unit. Then go spend X dollars more for a decoder times the number of locos you have. Dang, this loco isn't so easy to put a decoder in is it? So you spend 3 hours reworking it. Then you spend umpteen hours reprogamming them over and over, because try as you might, you can't get that trainset loco to run better than it did on DC. Then someone on a forum tells you you need a booster, then two. So now you spend X dollars time 2 on a couple of boosters for your 4 by 8 layout. That loco still don't run any better. Then you find you have to keep your track really clean for DCC to work right, cleaner than you did with DC. And your wheels too. Then decoders start going out. More dollars and time. Then you hear about using you DCC to run your points. So you go out and spend more dollars on decoders for turnouts. Ooops, forgot the reverse module. Add that cost. The one day your DCC burns out. You call the maker who is more than happy to fix it. Send it in they say. So you box it up and send it insured (if you're smart). But now I can't run trains. Sure, I could program then all to analog, if I had a DCC. Could package them all up and drive 40 miles to Jim's to reprogram them to anaolg. But my turnout would still need switched with the finger of god. Blow it off. Two weeks later, where is my DCC? Call the factory at 15 cents a min. and listen to badly rendered electronic classical music for 35 min before getting to talk to tech support. No, your unit has parts on backorder. Backorder you ask, you made it, right? Well, we did, but we don't make the parts, just assemble the units, and they all have the same part burn up and the factory in China is currently making talk chips for Dancing Elmo. So you bite the bullet rewire a couple units back to DC and run your trains. Two weeks later, same answer. So you put back a few of your turnouts. Two weeks later, still no DCC, redo some more locos and turnouts. 16 weeks later your DCC base shows up, but the hand controller is missing. Another frantic call to the factory. They can't find it. The tech that fixed it says it wasn't in the box, the tech that tore it apart remembers it was. And they are out of hand controllers and the factory that makes them is currently making parts for Tyco RC. So another 6 weeks and your (no, a new) hand controller shows up. By now 100% of your lococs are back on DC, 100% of your turnouts are back on cable or CDU. Your reverse loop is a switch. I reflect on how much work I now nedd to do to put my system back to DCC. I need to redo all my locos, switches, and ... so that I can be constantly flipping a rotary switch on my controller for turnouts which I have to write the number of on my facia. I have to reprogramm locos to run in consists. I have X dollars worth of stuff I now realize was just a waste of money: big time. I leave my DCC in the box and off to ebay listings I go. I got back about 60% of what I spent. I guess I'm the guy who don't exist. I went back to DC and am proud and happy I did. Fred