Model Railroad Hobbyist | October 2016 | #80 DCC IMPULSES column Bruce Petrarca MMR Five years of DCC Impulses Time flies when you are having fun. DCC Impulses was born in October 2011. So this is a special anniversary edition – five years. It will be a shorter column than it is in most months. That way, the time that you might normally spend reading this column will be available to read the story about “my club” elsewhere in this issue. Railfanning the Great Lakes Western gives a railfan’s view of operations on the layout I’ve been involved with for almost two decades now. In July 2016, I was in northern Utah for a few weeks. I got to spend some time with the model railroaders there on a couple of Saturdays. The first event was a monthly division meet of the Northern Utah division of the NMRA (northernutahnmra.org). They asked me to discuss DCC at the meet. I chose to take ques- tions from the floor, as opposed to making a canned presenta- tion. One question was, “Where do you see DCC going in the next five years?” XX DCC TIPS, TRICKS, AND TECHNIQUES • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS