Tech, good, bad, indifferent?

[ezdays]

Got to agree with Mikey. I'm also old school and prefer the challenges of DC to the versatility of DCC. Being retired and on a fixed income, I'm not in a position to spend hundreds of dollars on a DCC loco, or buy decoders and convert the ones I already have. I guess if I were inclined to do sessions with a bunch of others, then the latest technology becomes essential. When I had my layout, I never ran more than one train at a time anyway even though I had two DC cabs. I enjoy the modeling far more than running trains anyway, so my next layout just might be one big diorama, saving me all that money not having to buy DCC equipped locos with sound decoders and whatever new stuff they can add and charge for.

Yeah, running my trains from my smart phone and seeing them run using cameras does not appeal to me as fun. I do use my computer to design things and print background structures and things. That's about it for me and modeling technology. Fun is building things...