Generally speaking, yes.

RailPro, like DCC or any other command control system if the locomotive is sitting on a piece of track connected to the power supply with nothing to isolate that power then the locomotive is "on", ready to receive commands from the controller. If you don't want the locomotives to receive power while on a certain yard track then you'll need to isolate that track with a toggle switch of some sort. Other that troubleshooting or you have some sets of power you really don't use except once in a blue moon I don't see why you want to do it, the power consumed by the locomotive module while just sitting there waiting for commands would be negligible.

- Tim

Thank you for the replies. I ended up pulling all of the original control components and replaced them. I replaced the lights with LEDs and the entire project went much better than expected. The key for me was (as mentioned) to remove all of the original components and start fresh. The battery the customer wanted wouldn't fit in the tender so it was placed in the trailing boxcar. I used a 6 wire JMT connector between the loco and tender and am looking forward to doing his second unit.  THANK YOU RailPro for making things easy.

Ok, so there's 3 possibilities here:

• The motor is not actually connected to the LM3. Could be a bad join, a broken wire or even the wrong wires (not meant to be an insult that last one).
• The motor draws way to much current and drives the LM3 into overload. Even if this happens the Full Load Current Test should give you a reading of some sort and the information screen should tell you "Motor Overload", though it may not if the full load current is not set.
• You have a faulty LM3

...or 4 possibilities, you have a dud motor; but I'm assuming it ran before you hardwired it.
 
Because you say the Full Load Current test simply fails after saying speed 100% I'd place my money on number 1. Testing without a motor attached gives the same result as you report for the Full Load Current Test. Testing with a motor attached but prevented from rotating gives a high reading in the the Full Load Current Test and the LM goes into overload.

You can try testing for number 2 by setting the full load current manually (just don't choose yes to auto set) to the maximum and then trying to drive the loco. If it goes overload you'll get the yellow warning symbol and "Motor Overload" in the info screen.

That said, I think you need to investigate the connection between the LM and the motor.

- Tim

Thanks Bill, I will look into that option.

You could probably just add a keep-alive to them.