Well the final piece of the railroad finally came in: The Digitrax Zephyr. So after wiring everything up, I gave it a test go. Here's a short clip of me messing around on some loose track...
And after a month of waiting, the verdict is.... not impressed. One of these two is over-hyped: DCC or On30. It just wasn't that interesting running a point-to-point ore delivery line with the diesel and DCC. The operation of the loco was a bit sporadic. I couldn't run it at anything below 2.5 speed (out of 5). When I first set it up, it worked fine, then about 10 minutes later stopped responding every other command. After completely re-wiring it, it began to work again, but would still sputter and hickup regularly. For the price it costs.... weak sauce. Maybe those guys doing R/C trains aren't so far off after all...
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