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[quote user="BroadwayLion"]After all how would you turn a steam engine off?[/quote] Dumping the fire and filling the boiler. Some decoders its either 8 or 0 on the NCE throttle.  I assume you mean the sound.  Isolating sections of track isnt a bad idea;  if the power cant reach the locomotive via means of a physical switch accidents can be prevented.  A $5 DPST switch is cheaper than a $20-$100 decoder.  And as mentioned above, in the future you may have enough sound decoders and lighted/powered rolling stock on the layout to max out your command station's current rating.  My roundhouse stalls will all have kill switches to prevent locomotives from ending up in the pit or through the back of the roundhouse (those are prototypical accidents for a roundhouse, but like the prototype I find them undesirable).
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