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The Premium Layouts & Cars
collection is a vast set of stunning track plans, fully tracked
and ready to run, plus a huge collection of cars and locomotives
of all types created by professional railroad artists. All
this content can be browsed and easily downloaded from the
layout and car chooser dialogs in the program. More is
being added all the time -- your purchase of a TrackLayer
license entitles you to all current and future premium content.
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Features |
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 Hundreds of magnificent plans.
Premium layouts come in all shapes and sizes, from small
table-top layouts with tight curves to huge club-sized plans with sweeping
mainlines and giant yards.
Professional artwork.
Premium layouts feature original track designs and
wonderful, original scenic artwork, from a talented group of
railroad artists. Most plans were designed exclusively
for use in TrainPlayer.
Satellite photo layouts.
The Bruno collection features dozens of real-life
centers of railroad activity from all over the U.S. and
Europe. Run a prototypical long freight through the
actual yards of Chicago!
Thousands of cars and locomotives.
The Premium Cars collections contain just about
every type of car and locomotive known, faithfully
reproduced in side and top views and painted in prototypical road
colors.
Paint your own cars.
Try the new PYO set of car templates, carefully
designed cars of all types in need of a coat of your
favorite paint. Comes with detailed instructions.
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Layout Collections
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The Peter Lloyd-Lee collection. A
dozen large, gorgeous layouts created by Peter with 3rd
Plan-It railroad CAD software, complete with yards chock full of
custom PLL cars. Includes an original rendering of the
complete Gorre & Daphetid, the huge, busy Essex Passenger
Terminal, the industrial-strength Iron Harbor, and more.
 The Nicolas Villarreal collection. A
choice set of user-supplied plans, delightfully scenicked
and decorated by Nicolas. Includes both day and night
views of the full Gorre & Daphetid, a beautiful rendition of
the Nickel Plate Wheeling District, and fifteen more.
The Bruno Pigozzo collection.
An amazing large set of "layouts" built on satellite photos
of real railroads from around the world. Try your hand
at operating trains in the yards of Chicago, Madison, Los
Angeles, Milan, or Paris! Most plans are carefully
constructed by stitching together a lot of separate
sections, so you get long portions of mainline run in
between huge actual yards. Some include
color-coded track so you can tell one line from another.
 Train
Mountain. Two complete versions of the park in
Oregon where live-steamers meet to ride around miles of track.
The Premium set includes both a crisply-rendered track plan and
a photographic map, for hours of enjoyable cruising. For
more, see the Train
Mountain page.
Jim Schenk designs. An expanding set of large layouts with beautifully detailed scenery
rendered entirely in TrackLayer using the Scenery Toolkit
(Jim S was a prolific user during the test phase).
Includes a long linear plan based on actual track in
Madison, Wisconsin.Mark Johnson designs. Several
very attractive layouts created with Scenery Toolkit by Mark
J, another enthusiastic 3.3 tester.
Andrew Martin layouts. An extensive collection of small, instructive plans from
Andrew Martin's website. Full of ideas you can use
when designing your own.Space Mouse.
A hand-picked subset of the well-known
collection of small layouts with interesting operations.
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Premium Car Collections |
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We have over 2,900 images of car sides and car tops spread
over 2 large, general sub collections – Standard and Premium.
The Premium collections feature the work of our more
experienced users and enthusiasts. Peter Lloyd Lee’s
eleven carefully crafted collections focus on that key era
between 1940 and 1960 which encompasses the best of the steam
era and beginnings of the early diesel era. Pater has
fashioned a large collection of cars each with a unique bill of
lading from crates to lumber to tractors.
 Included in the Bruno Pigozzo collections are collections
from his backyard which includes CN, CP, BN, Amtrak and Conrail.
Bruno has branched out to include a variety of modern European
freight and passenger cars as well as some specialized
collections of Shortline, Modern Freight and Special Cars (MoW).
Mark Johnson likes to focus on specific types of cars in his
custom work. So in his MJ collection, you will find many
examples of 40 and 50 foot box cars, reefers, tankers and
gondolas and hoppers. You can quickly fill an empty yard
with any of Mark’s collections and still have a good variety of
roads represented.
Jim Schenk has rapidly developed several car collection based
on several populat fallen flags - like the CNW, GN, MoPac, the
Katy, Pennsy, NYC, and the Rock among others. Jim's
collections always include passenger cars as well as typcial
freight cars for each carrier.
Passenger car service from the western US is well represented
in the US passenger car collection – over 300 car types in 16
folders representing the major rail roads lie UP, BN and its
predecessor the Great Northern, Amtrak, the Super Chief, the
California Zephyr and even a large portion of the Ringling
Brothers Circus train!
You can run
US
passenger trains on European layouts or your can run the speedy
French TGV over your favorite North American rail line.
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How to Obtain |
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The Premium Layouts & Cars collections are included with TrackLayer
Builder. No additional purchase is
necessary.
The installer you download comes with a small
set of layouts only. To access the full Premium set, look
in your layout chooser on the Web tab under "Premium."
Download the ones you like, one or a few at a time.
Or, place an order to be delivered on CD.
The complete Premium set is included on the disk, with a
choice of whether you want to install the full set to your hard
drive or run them directly from the CD. There is a
shipping charge for CD orders.
If you have been running the Premium version of TrainPlayer
or TrackLayer, access to premium layouts is
still available when you upgrade to 3.3. If not, check
your upgrade options (under Help > Purchase Upgrade) and
consider upgrading to TrackLayer 3.3.
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