Anyone do "night" running on their layouts?

Ever since I was very young, I enjoyed turning off the room lights and running by night.

Though, only by twilight, the following video is a passenger coach ride through a 10-year-old iteration of the Great Northeastern Railway. The ride starts at the Terryville suburban station, through the yards, around the city of Christopolis with no scheduled stop in Union Station, into the long North C & T tunnel and back to Terryville. You are riding behind a MTH, RailKing, PRR K-4s with Protosound 2. At several points during the ride, you are passed in the opposite direction by a PRR passenger train led by a MTH, RailKing GG-1. Enjoy your ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWcvnSzFec

Sure. This train was made for night running!

This is going to be a FUN thread!  Can't wait to see the photos that folks provide 

Here is a YouTube video I did of my Lionel Metro North M7 in 2015 running at night: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3C3NaCgHs0

 Flimsy construction by Lionel on these units lead to the interior lights bleeding through the shell.

Night turn at J&L Steel Aliquippa Works.

Josef,

You might like this thread from a while ago.

A Shining City on a Hill:

Arnold

And we have night games under the lights at the ball park:

Arnold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

From back before the bridges were lit & yard addition was built.   The noise drives my wife crazy however at night...

Tom

Awesome night videos above.  Something about a illuminated passenger train.  It just looks right. 

Running late in the afternoon into the evening in the garden.

Regards

Fred

I have done it since I was a kid. Its part of the fun of the hobby. 

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

Your video of a night time ride through your great layout is superb!

Randy Harrison posted:

Ever since I was very young, I enjoyed turning off the room lights and running by night.

Same here.  Best of all is running passenger trains at night.

Randy Harrison posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

Your video of a night time ride through your great layout is superb!

Thank you very much Randy'... I appreciate your thoughtfulness'.  wish I made it longer'...

jay jay posted:

I have done it since I was a kid. Its part of the fun of the hobby. 

Very nice shots Jay'.. Nice looking layout, and scenes'...

South Fork Railroad night scenes.

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

Quarter Gauger, you wouldn't happen to have track plan of your layout, would you?

My layouts are usually designed for photo ops and night running so here’s one of my favorite. I also use a lamp from IKEA to make photos that look like sundown.  

Goodyear Blimp. NBC Sunday Night Football at Heinz Field.

I absolutely love running my trains in the dark, or at least in a very dimly room with my various accessories on.  Growing up, i was very afraid of the dark so when I was running my HO trains in my basement, I would agonize on how to shut things down such that I wasn't stuck in the dark.

Yes, about every time I go into my train room.

B&O night freight on the Free State Junction Railway.

  I always like running at night, but vividly recall the night I fell in love with it.  Gramps wasn't home but Grandma decided to run them.

    She shut off every accessory that made noise or output a lot of light. Put a General and WARR coaches and Superchief with streamiliners on the rails, killed the lights, and insisted on silence. The silence part killed me until I gave in and relaxed and we sat for about two hours in silence, except for the two trains and shadows laughing softly at the sleeping towns they cast themselves on seemingly reluctantly.  

  It changed my outlook on running. I never got any coaches back then, but I no longer asked for freight cars.

  Jumping back into the hobby, a few passenger cars where first on the list. I've only bought 4 freight cars and two sets since then (12-15 total?). But about 30 passenger cars are on the shelves now.

  If you're not a "Night Rider" IMO, you are MAD

...to the max 😁

This is from a fav. night shoot. Not the best from the bunch, but easiest to find right now

 My favorite way to run, have 33 night time videos.

This is too much temptation. I might have lost control except I can see them pretty well...(lamp from an old crossing gate)

Mine...all mine! ...I'm a happy miser of light somedays 😁

I'll be back to play again and again before this fades.

.... I should have a lotto night shots 😎🌛

Good topic and excellent pictures from everyone.

Thank you

As John H said above, this is a repeat from a short time ago.  Still a fun one though as new ones are shown.

I think mine meets the criteria of the title of the thread: night RUNNING

It's one of several that I can contribute.  Since I change my Christmas layout design each year the paths are unique, but in a way, merely repetitive of this one.

- walt

I have one Night running shot from my layout, from a while ago. I haven't done anything sense then since I have been busy with completing my bachelors degree and my layout is slated to be rebuilt.

Though I did have it be fairly long.

Amfleet25124 posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

Quarter Gauger, you wouldn't happen to have track plan of your layout, would you?

 Kevin, I sent you an E-Mail'...........

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Amfleet25124 posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ooR67-KR0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-IRcJcHszY

Quarter Gauger, you wouldn't happen to have track plan of your layout, would you?

 Kevin, I sent you an E-Mail'...........

Thanks for the e-mail TD.  

I would never had guessed that it was a stretched Figure 8 with an outside loop.  The night running threw me off.  Now that I know the set-up, I can't believe that I didn't notice it before .  

I actually prefer "night running."

I enjoy how the layout comes to life with just the lights of all the buildings, various street and yard lamps.

Also, the glow of the switch lanterns and final the trains themselves.  Headlight, pax cars, lighted cabooses, etc..

I've been doing it this way since I was a wee lad with my first layout my dad built for Christmas 1965

Night running to the night game at the ball park. And the passengers are excited about seeing the subway series game, which has already started at Citi Field.

That's an MTH Proto 2 Pennsy Turbine pulling semi-scale Postwar passenger cars. Arnold

Yes.  I use WAC Lighting J-track with dual circuits on two tracks.  That enables three tracks to control warm white cubes and one track to have blue for simulated moonlight.

I love night running my trains! Reminds me of when my first set was around the Christmas tree with all the beautiful shining lights. It feels magical. I agree that the layout seems to come to life with all the miniature lights.

I do it all the time.