Model Railroad Hobbyist | September 2016 | #79 DCC IMPULSES column Bruce Petrarca MMR Traveling with DCC As I was writing this, it was summertime in the USA, time to move about the country. Perhaps a long weekend away. Possibly going to a second home for an extended period of time. Now that it’s headed toward fall, for some folks’ travel involves just heading from home to the club. But it is becoming spring for folks in the Southern Hemisphere. And they may be traveling soon. Either way, how about a DCC system the size of a cigarette pack? I recently got my hands on a SPROG 3. All I can say is, “Wow.” I can see a myriad of uses for this neat little box. On a recent email thread, a user asked what SPROG stood for, since he didn’t do well with acronyms. Well, it isn’t an acronym, that is the name of the company and they spell it in all caps. Also, this month, Mr. DCC’s Workbench is taking a quick look at the new Digitrax DCS240 system box. Introduction to SPROG SPROG DCC (sprog-dcc.co.uk) is a company out of the UK that has been selling DCC products for about a decade. The BBM XX DCC TIPS, TRICKS, AND TECHNIQUES • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS