Darstaed Jinty with DCC

Very neat! I lurk over on the tinplate forum once in a while but not too often. If I get this in my blood I will be in trouble.

It is neat, and the attractive thing to me, is the cost. These locos have no smoke or sound, so a $20 decoder is better than TMCC or DCS if you can get it. You can install DCC to your entire roster for the cost of a couple of DCS or TMCC units.

That little Jinty is a nice little engine. can they run with an AC transformer 3 rail?

Chris, they are DC, but you would only need to fit either a bridge rectifier, or feed DC to your track. Because I mix my MTH Euro locos with these DC locos, I use an MTH Commander. The MTH locos also run on DC, so that way, I have DCS control DCC (via DCC controller) or straight analogue DC.

Hi Dave,
Thanks for the kind comments concerning the Darstaed 2-6-2T image. The Jinty is another cracking little model for sure and here's my tribute to this one:

Dave Upton, what do you think about offering Darstaed locos with DCC? Is it something that would interest the coarse scale crowd in Britain?

Sorry for the slow response Dave, only just picked this up.
For my part, I would have to say the model just needs to go forward and backward and I'm a happy chap, but then I'm also a very simplistic, backward looking sort of bore, who has no experience of such technical wizardry. I'll run it across our UK forum and see if I can elicit some sort of response. Unfortunately its still mid-winter over here and many still seem to be in hibernation. I'll see if I can wake them up & get back to you shortly.

Dave Upton