I was an early adopter of RailPro due largely in part to KPack's youtube videos and I was the founder of the RPUG on the old yahoo! groups site. I was readily impressed with RP's ease of use and the auto load sharing. I put up with a lot of shortcomings in anticipation of some advancement to the hardware. It's been what, 10 years, and the LM hasn't shrunk at all? I still can't put an LM in any of my SW's and frankly I'm tired of ripping parts out to replace them with substandard sound. Another issue is the massive size of the throttle. I love my Digitrax UT-6 as it fits perfectly in my XL hand. I loathe having to manhandle the RP brick that's swinging from my neck.
I think Tim had a far superior protocol and was sitting on something revolutionary. Unfortunately, all he's done is sit on it. The hobby has moved on and RP is stuck with Atari era hardware. I loved the concept at one time but the implementation has failed, in my opinion, and is nothing more than a niche. I'm officially done with RailPro having ordered new Overland and Rapido locomotives with ESU and installing the same in existing locomotives.
I think in another 10 years what members here are left will be hoping for some other new hardware that DCC has long ago implemented. I don't know why Tim refuses to bring RailPro up to modern standards but I'm done sticking around waiting to find out. If I get around to listing my RP equipment I'll do it here but most of it is a generation out of date.
The crew here has been the most outstanding that I've ever seen in a forum. The knowledge and willingness to help is second to none and I'm still amazed at the intelligence of those here and I always left smarter than when I logged in. There were four of us in Free-mo that ran RP. Two preceded me in going back to DCC and now there will only be one and I know he's already ordered ESU equipped power as well. It was a fun experiment but not a viable competitor to DCC. It could be, if Tim would get out of his own way.
