I'm not going to get into this thing but if we take what others have
said there are tons of reasons the "other than DCC" probably has greater
numbers. Go to the average trainshow and some dealer will have 200
engines laying on his table. Chances are they are mostly non-DCC. Look
at all the brass changing hands for the last 50 years--chances are most
of those have never seen a decoder. I'm sure every Christmas, there are
tens of thousands of HO trainsets sold every year--most that see the
inside of a dumpster in a couple of months.
However, when your talking about functioning layouts built within the
last 25 years, I would bet that over 50% have some kind of command
control system. And these layouts are the ones that count!
Next weekend, Houston is the host to the Lone Star Region of the NMRA's
annual convention. There are 19 layouts on the tour--except for a live
steam railroad, all have some kind of command control. Also remember
DCC is part of the umbrella grouping called command control. This
includes a few guys running Dynatrol, Keller, and any of the 3-rail
competing systems.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
n 6/1/12 1:25 AM, Ed wrote:
Don....The total sales of SHS locos is a small drop in the bucket of
all model railroad locos. While SHS made fine products, they were not
the only supplier of locos to the hobby and they represent a very
small sample size. I'll stick with my opinion until some contrary
facts show up. Cheers....Ed L.
> Judging by our sales of SHS 2-8-0 as well as the recent sale of
switchers, we sell more DCC sound versions by far than DC, DCC no
sound, AC/DC or LocoMatic combined
> Don
>
> On May 31, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Ed wrote:
>
> > > the current most popular system to run trains is DCC.
> >
> > While I have not counted heads, I strongly suspect there are more
layouts running DC or AC than DCC. Not even close from my perspective.
> >
> > Ed L.
