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If you design, build, or operate a model railroad -- or you ever thought about doing so -- or you just like to run trains! -- then you're in the right place.  TrainPlayer offers hundreds of great layouts you can run, and simple but precise tools you can use to design and build your own.  Running trains couldn't be easier -- our software is fully granddad-approved, designed for people who like trains more than computers.

Try the free demo, see for yourself.
 
What's New

March 2010 -- Just released!  Version 3.3.1, delivering on customer wish-lists

Version 3.3.1 of TrainPlayer/TrackLayer is the result of months of work on the user-supplied To-Do list.  By popular demand, we now offer:

< Transfer Tables -- slow-moving tables for smoothly shifting your locos.  Size, shape, and configure to suit, then decorate with pits, backgrounds, and bridges from our vast scenery collection.

Chooser Improvements -- a complete revamp of the file system, featuring new, simplified chooser dialogs, a folder of What's New items on the web, icons showing local file status, one-click access to your TP data folder.

AAR Codes -- classify your cars properly, using official codes from the American Association of Railroads.  All of our collections on the web now have codes assigned -- download our cars or customize yours from a full set of freight and passenger classes.

Instant Roadbed > -- with a single click, underlay some or all of your rails with custom roadbed, precisely shaped to fit.  You specify the width and choose the pattern.  Great for track roadbed, streets, roads, rivers.

File Organizer -- TrainPlayer straightens out your layout and car collection files, aligning them with the web collections for easier file management.

For details, see the 3.3.1 Features Page.  Better yet, click the button at right to download your free copy, and try it for yourself.

Our Products

TrainPlayer -- for the OPERATOR

tp screen shotJust run trains.  We provide the layouts and rolling stock, all you do is drive!  Try switching puzzles, learn yard operations, automate your daily deliveries, or just cruise through the countryside.  Famously easy to use.  Includes many layouts including 101 Track Plans,  Screen Saver. $59.  more...


TrackLayer -- for the BUILDER

Build and run your own.  Easy, powerful tools for drawing an operating track layout, now with scenery too!  Design a plan from scratch or add a yard to an old favorite.  Run trains during construction.  Try before you build.  Includes all of TrainPlayer, with Premium Layouts & Cars, track tools, Scenery Toolkit.  $99.  more...
Features
Scenery Toolkit

scnobjshotDecorate your layout -- new in Fall 09.  Buildings, trees, factories -- choose from our catalog or draw your own!  A complete but easy set of tools for drawing, filling, and editing shapes suitable for use on a model railroad.  Scenic your layout in an evening!  Included with TrackLayer 3.3.  more...
101 Track Plans for Model Railroaders
101 Track Plans

Classic Linn Westcott layouts.  All 101 of the most popular track plan collection in history, faithfully reproduced from the book, overlaid with track, equipped with trains, and ready to run.  Experience the Hungry Horse Timber Company in action!  Included with all products. more...

User Layouts & Cars

Railroads from all over.  Hundreds of layouts and car collections contributed by artistic users, from Bruce Bates' tiny Aquebogue Light to Ed Avetta's grand Wild Horse Timber & Mining Co.  Included with all products. more...

Premium Layouts & Cars

prem_shotTop-quality railroad artwork.  Hundreds of fascinating, original plans of all shapes and sizes, plus a vast cabinet of cars and locomotives to run on them!  Includes four different renderings of John Allen's complete Gorre & Daphetid.  Included with TrackLayer 3.3.  more...

TrainPlayer Screen Saver


Watch trains run.  Unique interactive Windows screen saver follows a train as it meanders through your entire layout collection.  Cruise while you idle!  Included with all products.  more...
Mar 8 10:  Spring Newsletter

Feb 28 10:
New version 3.3.1 -- free upgrade with great new features.  Click below to upgrade.

Jan 04 10: Layout Design Contest winners announced

Oct 29 09:
Version 3.3 press release

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"Trainz and MS Sim will just have to rest in their turntables - I have finally found a train program worth my time.  Thanks!" Dwight Brown  Aug 2009

"What a superb piece of software. Many thanks for a lovely program."   Terence Dalton June 2009

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Erie RR - 28th St. Terminal
by Vince Lee


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