NickL

Thanks for that suggestion - I will look into that. I actively don't want to be using a computer, or anything too visibly related to one, to control my layout or stock - I model to get away from all that world - but setting up locos is a different issue. Nick

As a 511 owner, I'd thought I'd add my two pennyworth.. I also saw this notification a few days ago, and I'm delighted. Partly because I can have an upgrade, and partly because it presumably means that Neil has managed to get the ZTC business into a position where it can support product development. The £199 cost of the upgrade doesn't bother me in the slightest, and what it brings my total spend to is utterly irrelevant. Not because I'm rolling in filthy lucre, but because the £500 or whatever it was I spent on the 511 six or seven years ago is gone. A "sunk cost", in the jargon. The £199 has to be judged against what I would need to spend now to replace the 511 with another brand controller offering similar facilities to the 611, since that's the alternative. And since I couldn't give two hoots about colour touch screen displays, wireless controls or the ability to operate my layout over the internet from a hammock in the Seychelles, but do like being able to "play trains" with a control interface that looks more like a loco cab than yet another remote control for the telly, actually my choice of alternatives is pretty limited... To zero, unless I'm much mistaken... But I admit that I do hope that the PC interface is compatible with something that lets me read and program CV speed tables in bulk from software, as that is the point at which button pressing gets tedious! Cheers all Nick