The FasTrack railer is a nice item. We have one at the club and use it occasionally to quickly set cars/locomotives on track in the staging yard.
A RE-railer is an in-track piece that puts derailed equipment back on the track just like the real thing except that it's done at running speed. They're available in H.O. and N scale, but I haven't seen one available for O scale. Basically, it looks something like a grade crossing fill, except that there are tapered ramps on the ends outside the rails to raise the flanges outside the rails and tapered points inside the rails to guide the wheels back to where they're supposed to be. They work quite well most of the time. For three-rail purposes, they're pretty much unnecessary under normal circumstances, but I think they'd come in handy for layouts with a lot of turnouts or for people who like running scale-wheeled equipment on flat-top three-rail track.
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