Yeah, should have clarified that more. What I meant is that no DCC vendor lists a drop-in board that I've found, so while it may be DCC ready, there's no way to determine what that entails. I did eventually call and talk to them, but the woman in sales didn't have the info I needed, and the person who did was apparently on a plane and unreachable. There MAY be a board that drops in and nobody's listing it, it may take the DZ126IN plug type, or it may have to be hard-wired with a plain DZ126. How much work and expertise any of those entail is also a question. I recently tried to repair a pickup wire that was defective on a Broadway Limited loco and it was such a spaghetti mess that there was no way I was going to dig into that. It got sent back under warranty instead, and even THEY didn't try to repair it and sent me a replacement instead. That's the sort of thing I DON'T want to find out after this ScaleTrains loco arrives. They're supposed to get back to me soon and let me know exactly what's up. I'd initially told them to cancel my pre-order, but I've since decided to hang on and at least see what's involved with putting in a decoder. I just don't think I'm willing to pay another $150 for sound when all I want is DCC functionality, and they REALLY need to clean up their website description to make clear that the non-sound version is purely DC. They separate out the sound features from the DCC features, and it makes it sound like the non-sound model is still DCC.