It is an expensive initial outlay and yes there are major version changes to pay for if you want to keep it up to date (you don't have to). I don't know iTrain but I've been a keen Train Controller (Gold) user since 2004. Please ping me a pm if you want to chat on the phone and I can tell you more about TC9 than I am willing to put here and explain a couple of reasons why I have chosen iTrain which may influence your decisionĮdited to clarify I was talking about TC9 Gold as iTrain doesn't have a Gold edition Edited Jby WIMorrison The TC9 support is similarly through a forum and is at a similar level to that provided for iTrain. The support through the English forum is generally good, the support in Dutch and German is even better and in UK if you buy through James at then you will get excellent 1 to 1 support where he takes remote control and sorts the issues out for you! He also runs courses on iTrain in his premises, again well worth the £70 for the day. There are drawbacks ITrain since it doesn’t have all the capabilities within TC9, as example, it doesn’t support the use of variables or HTML scripting but in most respects, I find it much easier to use.
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I will say though that you will have to buy the gold version of TC9 to achieve anything useful - the limitations on the lower versions are significant - a quick glance at the manual will show you that all the useful functions are only in Gold - highlighted by the gold bar down the side, whereas the stand edition of iTrain (what I use) has everything that I need What I don’t know is what you want to get out of the system as both will runs trains very well, both support automatic and manual routing, both offer macro capabilities and neither is limited on what you can control but, and this is the big but for me I find the interface of TC9 rather old and a bit clunky, I also find that in many cases illogical where the new version of iTrain 4.1 has a very clean and easy to negotiate interface. I am an iTrain user and have also looked at TrainController in depth and was considering swapping to TC9, but now I am not and I will stick with iTrain.
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So question to people who already use these can you suggest more pros / cons about both software and also their limitations would be a great help plus if you was to start over again would you still pick that software or look at something else?
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I am looking at the pros / cons between "Traincontroller" vs "i-Train" as I will be looking to buy one of them.ġ) Great looking application (like windows excel)Ģ) Lots of features built in (but negative you need gold)Ĥ) Compatiable with most DCC systems (except Gaugemaster to name one)ġ) Cost vs Features (Gold is a small fortune)Ģ) Only designed for Windows no i-MAC softwareĤ) Additional software / license required to use a walk around controller (more cost)ġ) High level of compatiability with most systems (only a few not compatiable eg Gaugemaster)Ģ) Software can be used on Windows or Apple systems or LinuxĤ) Cost for standard level license allows full automation of your layout (gold needed with Traincontroller)ĥ) Nice looking apple / i-MAC applicationġ) Hard to understand / learn (manual is not user friendly)Ģ) Free upgrades to your purchased version but other versions require more paymentsģ) Designed mainly for European train layout (Signals etc)ĥ) Dose not have buldings or stations preloaded have to create yourself Would like to start of a conversation about the 2 products on sale at the moment for controlling your model layouts.
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