The track is currently a non-electrified track. This means you can add the catenary on top of it. However, this also means you can't run officially electric trains on it.

There are three main reasons for this:

1. Clipping through crossings and junctions

The way the mod's implement means this is unavoidable as far as I can tell. Some junctions will have the 3rd rail clipping through them and all crossings have them. This requires a separate track type without the 3rd rail so that the model is removed. With them being non-electrified I'm able to just use the default track. However, if I were to allow an electrified version, trains running on electrified tracks might have gaps in the electrification or the track would have bits of catenary above it. Alternately I could add a third track type with no 3rd rail but invisible catenary. But this leads to reason 2.

2. UI Clutter

There's already 2 track types added to the game here. Each new track adds 2 more. With invisible catenaries there's 4 tracks, with the fully implemented invisible catenaries that brings it up to 6. If both the UK and NA versions are installed that's 12! I understand people like options but I still want my mods to be user friendly and not take up the entire track selection tray! Even making the pictures smaller, TpF naturally puts big gaps between track types. This could be remedied using a separate UI selection box but I don't know how to do that, don't know if it's possible, and quite frankly don't have the interest to try to figure out the code to make that happen.

3. It's not necessary

I don't think there's any reason why 3rd Rail vehicles should be implemented as electric. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that. Without installing a 3rd rail mod such as mine, 3rd rail EMUs would look much better running just on bare track that forced to run under wire. I think there are two mods currently on the workshop that are 3rd rail EMU type vehicles and they're both implemented as DMUs but just switched the sounds (the Munich and Berlin U-Bahn trains). If there are a substantial number of 3rd rail EMUs that aren't implemented this way that'll hold some sway and this mod can always be changed. However as of right now, and if my reasoning holds true, future vehicles should do the same and an electrified version simply does not have any purpose other than removing functionality.

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I played around a little with making an invisible catenary and it works fine and can be easily implemented. However, I'm still leaning towards keeping the mod as it is. Please voice your opinions below, especially to rebute by points.

On a side note, if anyone knows how to arrange the order of the tracks in the UI or knows how TpF2 arranges them, I'd gladly like to know!