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TomO:
Allan, thanks for the info about the signature

TomO

jimw:
I just noted a new RailPro thread on MRR's website under 'electronics and DCC'.  In view of the preceding discussion, perhaps it would be beneficial for someone with more knowledge than me to help that (widely read) forum give a better description of RailPro to it's readers.

JimW

JJ Crooke:

--- Quote from: Morebassman on July 17, 2017, 01:18:50 PM ---...I don't post very much but I check this site out everyday to see if anything has come up. It has served me well but I am not very good in electronics like some of you are so I can't contribute in that manner... but you all have helped me in all of the threads posted in this matter.

Don't get discouraged because some of us don't post. We READ... WE GLEAN

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Same for me here. I visit the site every week, sometimes more often but I rarely post. My model railroad time is limited so I prefer to quickly glance over the most recent discussions and spend most of my spare time building and running my layout and planning my ops sessions. I will start running ops sessions with my regular (DCC-only) group soon and introduce them to RailPro. I'll be ready to deflect their DCC-biased opinion because I know that most of them will be closed-minded with RP, especially with comments like "you made a big mistake... RailPro is a proprietary system and I would never invest any money into something that may not be here tomorrow." Of course they might not admit to liking some of RP's cool features but I'm ok with that. It is my money, my layout and I love RP... and that's all that matters to me!

Alan:

--- Quote ---you made a big mistake...
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Ask them to assemble 6 randomly chosen DCC locos of different manufacturer/model as distributed power 3 - 1 - 2 with a long train and run it over the entire layout. Then run RP in the same train configuration. With as big a grin as you can muster ask them who made a mistake.  :'(

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: jimw on July 21, 2017, 05:06:19 PM ---I just noted a new RailPro thread on MRR's website under 'electronics and DCC'.

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And the moderator removed all the links to RPUG from the thread. How nice! Seriously their forum polices could use an update.

Having a read it reminded me of why I don't visit forums other than this one much, as usual someone asked for advice on the system and as usual the naysayers came out with their reasons against it. I was amazed though that someone actually could see beyond the shoreline and could see how some of RP would be a big benefit overseas but not surprised when "that feature's not needed here".


--- Quote from: JJ Crooke on July 21, 2017, 08:49:48 PM ---RailPro is a proprietary system and I would never invest any money into something that may not be here tomorrow.

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That argument has to be the #1 fallacy in the model railroad world and is my greatest bugbear with DCC fanboys. You don't want propriety then don't buy DCC either, invent your own system and then give away all the specs and code to all and sundry to build it from scratch themselves.

Tell me how your going to buy a new DCS240 from NCE when yours goes down and DigiTrax went bust last year, or how your going to buy a new ProCab from DigiTrax because yours went down and NCE went bust last year, or how your going to access those manufacturer specific high CV's that your system cannot understand without using the manufacturers programmer.  DCC isn't propriety my rear end.  >:( >:( >:(

- Tim

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