Tech, good, bad, indifferent?

[Prairie Trains]

I once lost interest in the hobby for a couple of years until I bought a DCC system and I have been at it ever since. The NMRA designed DCC to be able to evolve with technology, and I think they did a great job. If your model railway is just a loop of track and you have no one to operate with, analog is fine. But if you have 6 or more operators, using a transformer and block controls is a wiring and operating night mare. Using DCC has made my dream of a large layout with many friends coming out each week to help operate come true. When we are short of people and have no dispatcher the crews can line the main line switches from their throttles, some thing you could never do with just a transformer. Without technology you would need a lot of wire to walk around your layout with a transformer.