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G8B4Life:
Lighting control is independent from the MU itself. You can select any loco in an MU and control the lights for that loco at will. The only automatic lighting is if a loco has auto reversing headlights enabled, which I imagine most would have turned off so you would need to turn the lights off in the loco you were driving, walk to the other end of the MU, climb aboard (select the loco in the HC) and turn the lights on for the trip back.

The think the word lead is a bit of a misnomer in this case. Perhaps Ring should have used the words first, second, third etc for setting up an MU as once the MU is set up as far as I know you can drive the MU by selecting any of the loco's in the MU. No need to break it up.

All this is from memory of watching Kevin's videos. Kevin can you chime in and confirm the above?

- Tim

KPack:
You can control the consist from any loco in the consist.  Each loco has full control of its own features.... Meaning you can control each locos lights and sounds individually.  Try doing that with DCC in a consist.  You'll be stabbing your eyes out by the end of the day.  As far as lighting goes, switching the lead loco does not automatically turn the lights on in the new lead loco.  You turn on what you want, when you want it.  No arbitrary and unrealistic on/off.  The control over lights really comes in handy when running a DPU....I just set whatever light is on the end of the DPU to "dim", just like the prototype.  Again, try doing that easily with DCC.

The only thing you can't control from a follower is manual notching.  That is only controlled from the lead.  I use only manual notching so I typically redo my lead locomotive when I change directions (except when doing switching ops).

You'll find that larger consists work better when the lead loco is swapped.  For switching ops it's usually fine, but for longer trips you'll want to swap the lead.  Automatic load sharing is based off the lead loco and the rest of the followers adjust accordingly.

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