British Railway Modelling (BRM)

FIVE DCC MYTHS EXPLAINED

f you’d said to me four years ago that I should convert to DCC, I would have shuddered with fear and gone back to the comfort of my analogue system. The thought of taking my locomotives apart and making irreparable alterations to some of them wasn’t something I was prepared to do. I didn’t have the skill or confidence to even attempt going beyond the basics of cleaning locomotive wheels. So why then, when I began building a new layout in 2018, did I make the change? Like so many others, I’d visited a number of exhibitions for inspiration and one of the key things that stood out to

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