I have both rails and baskets, and use them for different things. One of the uses for the rails that I found around the WKC was using them as elevators. If you roughly center them on the charcoal grate, you can set another charcoal grate on top to get the coals much closer to the food. Really handy for searing stuff, and my go-to when cooking corn on the cob, steaks, burgers sometimes, and many kinds of fish.