It's a tracker

Track your Train Simulator rides, know your whereabouts

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It's Multiplayer

Broadcast your ride on the Community Radar, view it on any device

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It's Realistic

Do a Real Drive in Real Time simultaneously with a Real Live service

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It's a Community

Publish your rides and meet your friends on the Whistle Board

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About Us

Welcome to ThirdRails.org

Experience a train driver’s operation at the highest level of realism possible in Train Simulator on any route with ease. Drive real schedules, in real time, in a multiplay style on the Community Radar with spoken announcements.

ThirdRails Map Tool is a free live map tracker for the Dovetail Train Simulator game. It follows your train on beautiful maps so you always will know your whereabouts.
You can view your ride on top of the game, on your second screen, or as an out-of-the-cab experience via any device using a webbrowser. You are able to add Point-Of-Interests to the map enabling scenario creation with military precision.

But it is more then a tracker, it extends TS gameplay with Real Drives, it logs your ride to the Whistle Board and offers a kind of multiplayer feature by means of the Community Radar.

Community driven

Do you have an idea, suggestion, improvement or bug?
Let us know, and we will try to build in your idea or feature.

Contact us by e-mail, steam community or one of the other social channels.


It's free!

But the ThirdRails project depends on your donations!
Become a ThirdRails Friend and get even more benefits!
For more info and to make your donation please visit the donation page
Thanks!.

Work In Progress

Currently working on the Announcement Builder so you can alter default announcements and add multiple announcements configurations in any language!

For more work in progress consult the Road Map


ThirdRails

Extend Train Simulator Gameplay

ThirdRails is much more then a tracker and route explorer, with ThirdRails you can enhance your Train Simulator GamePlay by a magnitude!

With ThirdRails Real Drives you can ride a real live service, in realtime, simultaneously with the real service by picking up a timetable with a single click, provided by industry leading timetable providers across Europe and the UK.
This literally offers an infinite number of scenario's at your finger tip for you to play, in a Quick Drive, Freeroam or standard scenario.

Along with that, you can get spoken announcements on any route / scenario, again with a single click using the provided GSM/Ebula device. Currently English, German and Dutch language are supported using Windows build in Speech system offering several voices.

To be honest, it doesn't get more realistic than this, does it?

ThirdRails Radar adds the much requested, multiplayer feature to TS, by means of the Community Radar, offering ways to broadcast your realdrive, connect and communicate with other drivers.

Step in a world of simulation and meet your peers!

With ThirdRails Whistle Board Train Simulation goes social!
Build your driver profile by collecting data per ride. Connect with your friends, and compete for the weekly KOM (King Of the Miles).
Learn and explore new routes and scenario's.
Get unlimited insights in your performance from your personal logbook using your own designed dashboards.

Inspire and get inspired!

Looking for ThirdRails Workshop scenario's?

Our scenario's, formerly hosted on ThirdRails Workshop, are now hosted at dutch Train Simulator Community DutchSims:
BeenTrain's scenario's

Features Overview

Tracking

With the Map Tool you can track your ride, offering:

- Live map with several maptypes OSM (incl. heritage railways), Bing, OpenRailWayMap
- Scenario building support with military precision using POI’s

Community Radar

Broadcast your ride to the community radar and interact with other drivers.

- View your live map on any device
- GPS-R device for communication, connect with other drivers
- EBuLa device, electronic timetable with radar announcements
- Service guard for spoken announcements based on Timetable

Do Real live rides

ThidRails offers integration with industry leading schedule providers where you can pick up your timetable with a single click and drive simultaniously with a real world service

- Unlimited amount of scenario's (Service Mode) in Quick Drive/Freeroam
- Post to the Whistle Board

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