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TrainPlayer Software brings model railroading out of the basement and onto your screen!

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 thousands of great layouts you can run, simple but precise tools so you can design and build your own, and an integrated system for operations.  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

Apr 2012 -- Release 5.0, Modular Railroading

Assemble a show-sized layout from pre-built modules!  Choose from our large collection of modular track plans, or use our templates and build your own NTrak or HO modules.  Bring them together in the Module Manager using drag and drop -- they snap together for perfect alignment.  Click once and you get a working model of the complete assembly, fully tracked and scenicked and ready to run.

 

 

Modular Railroading in 5.0 is a unique and essential new tool for the show planner, administrator, or module club member.  For the rest of us, it's another great step forward in TrainPlayer evolution.  Free upgrade for licensed users.

For details, see the Version 5.0 Feature Page.  To get your copy, click here:    Download 5.0


Jan 2012 -- Release 4.2.2, many fixes and improvements, free upgrade

Improvements in all areas.  Fast startup, built-in check for updates, improved text in scenery, enhanced ops load system, better ops grids, new script commands, many bug fixes.  Help yourself to an update.For a complete list of fixes and enhancements, see the 4.2.2 Readme.

Dec 2011 -- Release 4.2, a completely redesigned graphics engine!

Infinite zoom, smoother scrolling, hand view dragging, and more!  Free upgrade.  See Version 4.2 Features.

Now shipping version 4.2.1, with still more improvements.


Oct 2011 -- Release 4.1, a summer-load of new features!

Ties along your rails!
Track rotations and flips!
Scenery merging with the background image!
Animated gifs to liven up your scene! 
Free upgrade!
                         


May 2011 -- Release of 4.0 with Ops!

Now available: a great new package of features for operating your railroad in a realistic way.

Create industries on your layout to ship and receive goods.  Fill your freight cars with visible loads.  Get a switchlist from the virtual yardmaster, climb in the cab, and you're ready to operate.

Ops in TrainPlayer 4 brings you all this with a few clicks.  Generation stations, industries, yards, switchlists automatically, or download from a huge set of ops-ready layouts in the web chooser.  Challenge yourself to deliver the goods on time.  Learn how a real railroad carries out commerce.

For bullet points and screen shots, see the Version 4.0 Feature Page.

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. Now featuring TrainPlayer Ops.  $59more...


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, plus Premium Layouts & Cars, track tools, Scenery Toolkit.  $99more...
Features
Scenery Toolkit

scnobjshotDecorate your layout.  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.  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.  more...

Ops

Railroad operations in your armchair.  Deliver tangible loads to industries you define on your layout.  Let the TP Yardmaster give you your work orders.  Learn about waybill cycles.  Create yards and interchanges.  Included with all products.  more...

Modular Railroading

Test-drive your modular layout before the show.  Choose from a collection of precisely-built NTrak and HO modules, or build your own.  Assemble them with drag and drop, then click once to build the full layout automatically.  more...
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April, 2012: announcement of 5.0:

Spring Newsletter with Special

Spring 2012 Press Release

April, 2012: release of Version 5.0, featuring Modular Railroading!

5.0 Feature Page

Jan 4, 2012:  Release of Version 4.2.2, fixes and improvements!

Version 4.2 Feature Page

 

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Features

Version 5.0

Version 4.2

Version 4.1

Version 4.0

TrainPlayer / OPERATOR

TrackLayer / BUILDER

Scenery Toolkit

101 Track Plans

Premium Layouts & Cars

Standard Layouts

Featured Content

How-To Clinics

Quotes

"This is probably the best model railroad program out for computers. I can think of nothing that surpasses it for simplicity and elegance."  Doug Parrish, May 2011

"TrainPlayer has put an incredible amount of time and effort into Ops and it's paying off ... I'm having a ball working through the switchlists."   Mark Johnson, Mar 2011

"Not only is the TP program pure genius, but the group enjoying it is beyond great -helpful, humorous, and always hungry for more. You can't beat it anywhere!"  Hans Olson, Mar 2011

Featured Layouts

Grimsby Industrial Park

One of England’s busiest seaports, another great layout from Bruno Pigozzo, fully ops-ready.



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