This thread is about what you would do with a remote operated car. By this I mean if you could stand next to your layout and using remote controls such as DCC what would you like to be able to do, and what would you this allow you to do.

Note that if you do not want to do ANYTHING remotely that is fine, but that is not what this thread is about so please do not post that type of comment here. This thread is for that that maybe interested in the possibilities that remote control of things other then just forward/backward/lights and sound on an engine.

-Doug M

I don't want to open up a can of worms here, just want some general opinions. It looks like I may be able to get hold of some funds to expand my loco roster and I'm looking at GP-7s . Right now there seems to be two choices in the marketplace and they have widely varying price points. Since I have no LHS nearby to go and look at these models, I have to ask here and hope someone can give me an informed opinion.  If I buy an Athearn over a Bmann, what am I getting for the extra money? Is the quality that MUCH better....is the detail that MUCH better? What gives?

Here's the latest video of my Davenport Rock Island & Northwestern Railroad. 

I have recently shaved a brand new 44tonner body down to slip inside my old MDC boxcab and IT FITS like a glove.

Having mucked about with the crappy MDC drive for too long,trying to get it to work, I bit the bullet and got a new single motor DCC'ed 44tonner, cut the handrails width off the sides and the grilles off the hoods and a bit of a shave here and there,got it to fit.