Welcome back to the Train Simulator Screenshot Contest! This week's theme is: Night You can vote for next week's theme in the poll attached to this thread. What is your choice? Follow us on Instagram (instagram.com/trainsim) to see your screenshots featured on our feed! How does it work? You can submit your screenshot to the thread, and every Friday we will choose which screenshots will go to the loading screens. Shortly after, we will open a new thread and announce the winners. Each week has its own theme which is voted for by the community. Competition Rules: Limit is 2 screenshots per person; 1 screenshot per post. Include in your post the route the screenshot was taken on as well as the name of the train (if applicable). Screenshots must be in a 16:9 resolution, at least 1920x1080 pixels. Screenshots must fit the theme of the week, as stated at the beginning of this post. In order to qualify for the competition, screenshots must be taken from products published by Dovetail Games that are currently on sale. Other Rules: Official content only. Please make sure anything that is not available on the Steam Store or Dovetail Store is not shown in the screenshot. - This means no reshade, repaint mods, track upgrades or workshop routes. View excluded content: https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/screenshot-contest-excluded-routes-and-locomotives.31092/ Your entry may be disqualified if it is deemed to not follow these rules. Please limit chat to only when absolutely necessary. Competition closes at mid-day Friday (UK time). The winner will be chosen every Friday. Winner's Prize: The winning screenshot will appear in the game as a loading screen for 4 weeks! T&C: Please refer the terms and conditions for this competition here: https://dovetailgames.com/competition-terms-and-conditions/ Note that by submitting an entry to this contest, you are consenting to us using your screenshot as a loading screen and showing it on our social media channels (such as Instagram)
A Kiha 40 cruises thru the Japanese countryside, during a warm summer night. Route: Tadami Line Locomotive: Kiha 40 DMU
Union Pacific #8204 leads a train across the Kansas River, westbound. Kansas City and the moon can be seen in the background. Route: Granger Heartland: Kansas City to Topeka Locomotives: EMD SD9043MAC, GE ES44AC
Class 40 Preservation Society 40145 "East Lancahire Railway" on tour, returning to London St Pancras via Luton station late at night. Route: MML London St-Pancras - Bedford Loco: Class 40, Class 319 Scenario: Thames Clyde Express (Part 2)
Class 43 HST at Motherwell Station on a late night run to Glasgow. (View full screen for full effect) Loco:- Class 43 HST Route:- WCML North
The mighty GT-El ready for action at Granite in Sherman Hill. Hope no-one minds me dragging this out again.
A set of the Pennsy's finest pose for a publicity photo in the Altoona Yard one late night in the early 1950's. Route Used: Horseshoe Curve Locomotives Used: PRR K4, EMD GP7, EMD F7, Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose, Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2 Centipede
On a late Spring evening in 1944, the Eastbound Overland Limited makes a station stop in Evanston, and tops off with water before speeding off to Omaha, and points East. Route Used: Union Pacific's Wasatch Grade Locomotive Used: Union Pacific FEF-3
A group of trains waits for the morning rush to Chicago Route: The Racetrack Aurora - Chicago Loco: F40PH
A late 1980's night on the approach to Glasgow Central Route: West Coast Main Line North Equipment: Class 86, Class 303
What do we associate with night? Engineering works! Network Rail is performing some overnight work on the Dawlish Seawall near Teignmouth while the line is closed. Route: Riveria Line Loco: Class 66 (S&C version)
It's 23:00, and a warm summer night on the Bernina Pass route. A pair of ABe 4/4 IIIs stop at Alp Grum to pick up passengers from the restaurant at the station.
A Class 09 Shunter organising the parcel / newspaper train to be distributed along the Chatham Main Line. (Class 421 CIG on the left.)
GWR Saint 4-6-0 "Bride of Lammermoor" hauls the mail train out of Paignton Station on the Riviera Line in the 50's
Night time is still a busy time at the docks. Route: GEML London to Ipswich Loco: Freightliner Class 66 v2.0
A diesel engine trundles through the streets of West Brownsville, PA on the Norfolk Southern Coal District route. (The engine is the NS Dash 8-40C a.k.a. C40-8).
To me nothing says night as much as the forbidding darkness of the Alps in winter. An Abe 8/12 Allegra forces its way upwards through the snow and the darkness towards the summit of the Bernina Pass: St Moritz – Poschiavo route.
A freight train passes through Oakland on its way to Pittsburg. Route: Sacramento Northern Loco: SN Class 650
BR Class 423 (4-VEP) on South Western Main Line: Southampton to Bournemouth route. (Loading bar should cover up the platform line misalignment- image was originally cropped (this one isn't)).
2 ARR GP38-2's preparing for some midnight shunting in South Anchorage. Route used is Alaska Railroad: Anchorage - Seward.