Railroad Automation started out in 2002 as a project I gave myself to quickly get up to speed on what was, at the time, Microsoft’s new .NET platform. Combine that with my love for DCC (Digital Command Control) model railroads and the application grew to become a full featured toy box for model railroads based on Digitrax’s Loconet network. Over the years as the .NET feature set has evolved, I have been able to add many interesting features to the application both as a learning tool and because it made the application that much more fun to operate.

My goal was to create a powerfull, yet user friendly command and control solution, while providing a great deal of flexibility for third party developers and tinkerers. The latter was achieved by componentising the application into distinct layers so consumers can choose the level of usability vs. flexibility.