Conclusions
On a recent trip, I had a rental car that is a model that directly
competes with the sedan I recently purchased. The ability to
drive this competitive car showed me a few things that worked
better than the same features on my car. However, close to a
week of driving the competition, which is one of the best-selling
models in the USA, reaffirmed my decision to buy the car I did.
This is how I feel about the MRC Prodigy Elite. It is a nice unit
with a lot of power and some neat features. I believe I could
like it if it were the only system I had worked with. However,
I am not ready to trade my NCE system or the club’s Digitrax
system for one. The MRC offerings seem to be oriented to folks
who want a DCC system to run a few locos about. They miss
the mark for serious operators, as I discussed in this column.
I hope that MRC trades the low-price moniker for a solid-feel-
ing system that really does what a serious operator needs in
the future. It is so close and yet still not there.
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