Just messing about with my iPhone and iMovie to make this very brief video from my layout...

On a pleasant summer afternoon the CNR mixed train crosses the bridge at Thornbury on its return trip from Meaford to Collingwood, ON.

I am looking for your Pros and Cons on DCC wiring.

Here's the situation: I started laying track awhile back and used some of those rail joiners with the wire attached - WRONG! When you ballast and they "disappear," you can't find them when you have a problem. So, as I progressed, I made drops where required and soldered wire to rail and that wire to a buss with a Scotch-Lok or stripped and soldered. So far so good.

On Friday evening, 06 Dec. 2013, I attended the set-up of a local train show. I would love to have gone to the actual show on Saturday, 07 Dec, however, I had to work that day. I bought an Athearn (GP-7 / GP-9) diesel that evening. Circumstances were such that I could not test run it. When I, finally, got it home, and ran it on my layout, it sounded more like a distressed, ready to die steam loco, rather than a diesel.