With the excitement of setting up my layout I may have been overlooking, but I notice that once I run the shutdown sequence with my Legacy controller on Legacy and TMCC engines, the lights on the engines stay on. The controller should have command as it was powered up first to take the track out of conventional mode. Shouldn't the train completely power down, including the lights when you shutdown the engines via the controller or have I got a wiring problem?
Thanks for any info...
Mike
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If you mean the number board lights, then these do stay on. Headlights etc. should turn off though.
Nicole that is not quite true. He mentions TMCC and Legacy. TMCC engine have less lighting controls than Legacy and lights such as headlights are triggered on with track power even if in command mode. So many of my Steam TMCC engines have headlights on when track power is applied and they stay on even if a TMCC shutdown is done.
Additionally there are a number of lighting effects powered by track power (Cab light, firebox, etc...) that will always be on when track power is applied.
Legacy has more control features available so less lights should stay on for Legacy engines. G
Another point is early Legacy locomotives did not turn off headlights when you shutdown, later ones do shutdown more lights.
another reason the op should have included the 6-xxxxx number.
Thanks for the correction GGG and John. All of my Legacy locomotives are fairly recent. (I live in the 50Hz world.) 
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