no, it's a matter of:
1. adding night sounds as croaking frogs and chirping crickets
2. reducing or removing static vehicles parked and people in businesses closed or with reduced activity at night
3. eliminating the horse buggy rides and stagecoach amusement rides as well as their associated sound objects as a driver yelling at the horses
4. putting a curfew on my public boating lakes and parks: pulling out people, animals and taking boats off the lake except a houseboat
5. reducing the numbers of people and cars at the train station
6. removing small children from the streets
7. eliminating my lumberjacks with axes and hand saws
8. clearing the farms and ranches of workers and quieting many farm animal sounds as bleating goats and clucking chickens
9. removing children, faculty bicycles and cars from schools
10. taking school buses and associated people off the route
11. eliminating the fall-mow lawn mower men and the lawn mower sound objects
12. closing down Norton Concrete, parking all the cement mixers and removing employees and cars from the job site
13. parking all USPS delivery trucks at the post office and taking postmen off the street
14. removing hunters and their dogs/horses from the layout and the sounds of gunfire as well: no shooting after hours
15. removing all sport fishermen from the layout
16. removing livestock herding scenes and closing all farm and ranch gates
17. removing farm tractors and combines from crop fields and stowing them in sheds
18. closing down Armstrong Medical Clinic and reducing dogs, people and cars at Groves Animal Hospital, still a 24-hour emergency facility
19. shutting down my auto repair garage
20. pulling bicycle riders off the route
Many businesses and industries still remain active at night and this list is not exhaustive:
1. Dave's Diner
2. Rob's Motel and Diner
3. all railroading activities including MOW track inspection (railroading is like the military service, the emergency sevices and the trucking industries, they never sleep)
4. all trucking
5. gas stations and diesel fuel facilities, Don's Diesel Stop
6. Campbell XX Ranch feed lot
7. loading beef onto the cattle truck at Campbell Ranch's corral
8. Davidson Intermodal station
9. American Freight warehouse
10. all highway maintenance scenes with hard hats and equipment
11. the Army Huey helicopter stays in flight
12. the forest fire scene stays active after dark
13. police and sheriffs are still arresting people and pulling vehicles over
14. Groves Campground still has people, dogs, tents and trailers since camping is a night recreation as well as a day one
15. Stover Feed Mill still operates to produce feed for local ag
16. Holt Logging Camp still loads logging trucks at night
17. Thompson Sawmill still active at night with lots of floodlight towers on the grounds
I thought of also making a winter snow version of my route as well with Christmas coming up but that would be too much trouble. I have ground splines house grass and ballast splines along the edges of my bench work since it is a model railroad and requires terra-forming. Even if white snow ground spline were available it would be a pain to replace existing ground splines with it. There is a lot of YARN roadway and no way to replicate winter conditions as ice and winter tire marks on it. No way to add snow to roofs of buildings and tops of parked vehicles.
Yes it's easy to texture paint the ground with snow and many trees go into winter mode when the Environment is set to winter months and snow is set to the proper elevation, but what about all the other objects?
Instead of my horse buggy rides I would have to have horse sleigh rides. I don't know if their is even any driveable horse sleigh content. Trainz does have working snowblowers and snowplows available.
Perhaps a Trainz edition will be invented with advanced winterizing tools to make snow-covered routes look totally realistic with ease. Some G-scale garden railroads are out of doors and get real snow and rain over them!
PS - I have heavy-haul lowboy trucks, sporting OVERSIZE LOAD signs, on the roads with escort vehicles on the YARN roads: should these be eliminated during the hours of darkness?
Perhaps, future Trainz versions will have advanced night mode tools to make certain content disappear at night auto-magically!