Three-Rail Innovations, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells products for the toy train operator. Our products accommodate AC powered trains running on three-rail track and AC powered accessories.

Our controller products are activated by isolated outside-rail track sections for reliable, invisible, low-cost controls for trains, accessories, lighting, and track switches. Controllers compensate for wheel bounce and dirty wheels so features work perfectly every time a train goes by.

The Automatic Train XChange controller allows running two trains on a single track loop, running one train while holding another in a passing siding, or running two trains with a "stop-and-wait" holding track, all with a single ATX controller.

The Automatic Train XChange controller can also be used to automate track switches on any layout.

The E-Unit Cycler allows you to add a simple back-and-forth line to your layout or to create an extensive back-and-forth layout with multiple automatic track switches and even operating multiple engines.

The E-Unit Cycler can also be used to automate track switches on any layout.

Three-Rail Innovations' "Two-Relay Controller" operates AC or DC powered trackside accessories, controls train power, operates any track switch, and makes running your trains more interesting and safer.

Three-Rail Innovations' "Two Lighting Relays" controller serves lighting needs for train layouts from a few lighting accessories to an extensive prototypical layout with hundreds of lighted structures.

The "Two Lighting Relays" controller has two independent timers that can be activated by trains moving over an isolated outside- rail, by operator pushbuttons, or set to continuously cycle on and off. Its relays can be connected to operate lights, accessories, or even trains.

Three-Rail Innovations' UTAC employs insulated rail track sections to operate trackside accessories. Eight track sections are employed to operate eight accessory elements.

Three-Rail Innovations' "Train Block Controller" implements a block control system for your three-rail train layout. Multiple trains run automatically on your "mainline" track. Your train layout becomes more exciting!

Three-Rail Innovations, Inc. history, mission statement, and something about its founder.

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A summary and click bars for Three-Rail Innovations' products.

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Click the bar for a description of the train block control system used by Three-Rail Innovations' Train Block Controller and automated layouts, including example automated layout track plans.

Trackside accessories have contributed to the action and appeal of toy trains since the first electric powered trains circled Christmas trees. This web page gives the history of an insulated outside rail to control trackside accessories then provides descriptions and connection diagrams of many devices.

Lighted accessories and structures add a lot of appeal to the toy train layout. They are even more eye catching when lights come on as trains move into parts of the layout, cycle on and off, and respond to visitor push buttons. Three-Rail Innovations' products can be connected to turn lights on, or off, as a train passes over one or more track sections, electrical switches are pushed, or to turn lights on and off in a seemingly random fashion.

Want to add some stop-and-go action to your train layout? Perhaps, a siding that holds a train for a time?

Short circuits as a train crosses transformer circuit boundaries? Trains colliding at crossovers or track switches? Three-Rail Innovations' products can solve these problems and make operating your trains safer.

Three-Rail Innovations' products can be used to operate track switches, provide a non-derailing feature, inhibit activating a track switch when a train is traversing it, and prevent a train from entering a switch when another train is already traversing it. Automatic track switches on layout's mainline can add considerable visitor appeal.

Three-Rail Innovations has prepared "How To" papers targeted to the toy train operator to help with electrical and wiring needs.

Learn how to make and use insulated outside rail track sections and make invisible electrical connections to track. Review how to use isolated outside-rails with various track systems.

The toy train operator can make good use of materials used by the electrical and electronics industries, but are not commonly available from toy train vendors. This web page lists vendors, web sites, and local sources for electrical supplies useful to the toy train operator.

Links to train stores in the Denver Area.