I can find no shortage of youtube videos; blog entries; and official articles on the way to set-up, configure; and manage complex layouts with TMCC< Legacy, DCS, or similar technologies. However, the two things that catch my notice are:
- they are ten-fifteen years old and involve hardware of that vintage
- they don't seem to point to or cite Best Practices documentation, whether that be vendor-specific documents (though, I found those, too) or any credible organization of model railroad hobbyists.
I realize that as a leisurely past time, there probably isn't really *one* canonical organization -- there are scads of folks like me, doing this for fun. But some of you have way more experience and accumulated wisdom on the topic, which leads me to ask:
what are folks doing/using/buying today, and what drives the decisions of whether to go with Legacy, TMCC, or DCS? Are Lionel and MTH's systems the only game in town, or are there third party systems? Is anyone using raspberry pi-based solutions (I have seen arduino type solutions, but that's a little too close to layer one for me -- RBP uses more layer 3 full stack code capacity).
Thanks in advance!
Peter Burris
