Tutorials

Step by step to your first running layout — plus how-tos: Switching from WinTrack, Switching from AnyRail and Switching from XTrackCAD.

Work in progress: This section is still a work in progress — content is being added and revised continuously.

Your first layout — step by step

Five chapters around the same base oval: Part 1 builds it, Parts 2–5 each add their own building block (station, reversing loop, second track and, soon, trains). Read in order they form a learning path — but each part starts from your oval, not from the previous one. Build along in the app ↗

1 First oval with a siding From an empty board to a running loop with one turnout and a siding — in about ten minutes. 10 min 2 Grow the oval into a station The loop becomes a layout with operation: a runaround, a second platform track and a name. 15 min 3 Reversing loop around the hill The line runs around the outside and turns the train around — including the business with the polarity. 15 min 4 Double-track main line A second track parallel to the oval — in seconds with the ∥ tool, plus a crossover. 15 min 5 Run trains & spot problems Soon Define your train, place it on the rails and read the plan check like a pro. 10 min

How-tos

Switching from WinTrack Bring your WinTrack plan across — the import takes over tracks, flex track, heights and gradients, layers, landscape and accessories, then you check it with fresh eyes. 10 min Switching from AnyRail Bring your AnyRail plan across — tracks, flex track, heights, layers, areas and text come along. What's missing is listed here. 10 min Switching from XTrackCAD Bring your XTrackCAD plan across — catalogue and flex track, heights, layers, drawings and structures come along. Here's exactly what works. 8 min