Made to measure
TRAX generates masts and contact wires made to measure for your tracks. That gives you an overhead line far closer to the real railway than standard parts can.
Catenary
Overhead line that fits YOUR layout.
TRAX hangs the overhead line over your layout, WAZO3D makes the masts, portals and jigs for it – made for your tracks. You print them and bend the contact wire on the jig.
Photo: XoMEoX, CC BY 2.0, cropped
Why TRAX's overhead line
Your whole network designed
TRAX3D designs your complete overhead-line network, with tensioning, portals and tunnel suspension. TRAX works directly with WAZO3D, which generates the made-to-measure parts. The TRAX building plan then gives you a detailed explanation with construction drawings to put it all up.
Or your own way
Want to choose for yourself, for a diorama or an exhibition layout where you are after a particular effect? Place standard masts and wire lengths your own way. Even then TRAX Catenary offers a very wide range, for a fine and true-to-life overhead line at a modest price.
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped
Catenary
One plugin per country and overhead-line system, for every scale. The contact-wire jig is sold separately.
Coming soon
DB – Germany
The Deutsche Bahn overhead line: flat lattice and concrete masts, cantilevers, middle masts, portals over several tracks, tension masts with weights and tunnel suspensions.
Prints in H0TTN
Price to follow Take a look
Coming soon
NS – Netherlands
The Dutch overhead line: DIN masts, portals across the track, the Veluwe and the Brabant portals, with the twin contact wire.
Prints in H0TTN
Price to follow Take a look
Planned
ÖBB – Austria
The Austrian overhead line is on the list.
Planned
SBB – Switzerland
The Swiss overhead line is on the list.
Sold separately
Coming soon
Contact-wire jig
The jig for the contact wire: with it you make the wires at exactly the lengths TRAX works out for your layout. It goes with every overhead-line system and is sold separately.
Prints in H0N
Price to follow Take a look
Better together
Missing a variant?
Missing a particular mast, portal or type in the plugin you bought? Tell us: we will try to build it in.
The overhead line of your country
Want a plugin for the overhead line in your country? Help us with photographs and information, and you get the plugin free once it is built.
Something not right?
Did we get a detail wrong? Let us know. If it can be done technically, we will put it right.
How it works
- 1
Lay the line in TRAX
Mark your tracks as electrified: TRAX puts the masts, portals and tensioners where they belong, by the system you choose. Free, like everything in the editor.
- 2
Generate in WAZO3D
The plugin turns that placement into printable parts: every portal made to fit its tracks, the wire lengths and the counts.
- 3
Print and bend
Print the masts on your own printer, bend the contact wire on the jig and put the line up on the layout.
The working drawing in the TRAX building plan
With the TRAX building plan your overhead line comes with a detailed working drawing: where every mast goes, and how the contact wires are hung.
Catenary manual
What comes with the plugins and how you print and build them: read it beforehand.