Driving by hand
Your computer, tablet or phone is the throttle, with the braking and the pulling away that suit the train.
Model railway control
Your layout.
Your trains.
Full control.
Drive your locomotives by hand, automate your blocks and points, or do both at once. Take your own trains along to the club and join a running session straight away.
TRAX Control is being built and cannot be bought yet. What the editions hold and what they cost is below, and the shop opens at launch.
What it does
Run your model railway the way you want to
Not rigid automation, but the freedom to drive yourself, to shunt, or to run a timetable with a group.
Full automation
TRAX Control drives the routes, watches the blocks, sets the signals and keeps the timetable.
Both at once
Drive the express yourself while the goods trains find their own way round the layout.
Running together
Several drivers on one layout, each with their own trains and their own job to do.
Editions
From a layout in the spare room to a big club layout
Five editions, from trying it out at home to a large installation. The core — driving, automatic driving, a phone as a throttle and your TRAX3D layout — is in every one of them.
Free
To try it out
€0 free
3 trains · 2 controllers · 1 screens
- Your layout straight from TRAX3D
- Driving by hand
- Automatic driving, blocks and signals
- Help from the forum
A home user who wants to start
Coming soon Everything in this edition
Run
For those who drive themselves
€99 once
10 trains · 3 controllers · 2 screens
- Draw a schematic yourself
- Run a timetable
- Complex train movements
- Drive from tablet and phone
A serious home user
Coming soon Everything in this edition
Pro
Full automation
€149 once
25 trains · 5 controllers · 4 screens
- Priorities and dynamic routes
- Take your stock along on your phone
- Import other layout formats
- Dynamic lighting and sound (optional)
An advanced user, or several layouts
Coming soon Everything in this edition
Club
For model railway clubs
€299 once
100 trains · 10 controllers · 10 screens
- Roles and rights per member
- Member licences €20 / year
- Exhibitions with your own layout
- Several layouts and rooms
An association or club
Coming soon Everything in this edition
World
For very large layouts
from €1,450 a year
Scalable
- Very large block structures
- Your own logic and switching
- Several sites joined up
- Support at events
A large public or professional installation
The prices are not final yet and may differ at launch.
From design to layout
What you drew in TRAX3D is the basis
The track, the points and the blocks you drew are exactly what TRAX Control needs to run the real thing.
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1
Draw
Draw your layout in TRAX3D.
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2
Connect
Connect your command station and boosters.
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3
Import
Load the track plan and its sections.
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4
Set up
Give the trains their addresses and their routes.
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Run
And the layout comes to life.
Trial run
Run your layout before you build it
A layout you drew in TRAX3D runs in TRAX Control before a single rail is laid: no command station, no decoders. TRAX Control plays every detector itself, so the trains move over the diagram, the routes are locked and the signals follow.
How many trains run at once depends on your edition.
How to do itWhat it shows you
- Whether your stations and passing loops hold the trains you want to run.
- Whether trains get in each other's way.
- Whether a locomotive can run round where your plan expects it to.
What it does not show
Real braking distances and speeds, and the faults of a real layout: a poor contact, a detector that reports nothing, a turnout that sticks. Those come once the layout is built.
Ready to make your layout run?
TRAX3D draws the track. TRAX Control brings it to life.
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