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George, if these springs fit, I promise to send you the first two I give away.  Fair enuff?

Robert, while I am no expert, I now have a fair amount of troubleshooting time on this unit.  So from that perspective, here are my 'two cents':  You either have a jumping clutch (located inside that 14-gear gearbox, or a gear misalignment problem, or both.  Pull the rear panel "trap door" off the unit, and look for a set of white lines in lower left corner.  When unit is now in 'waiting' mode, after completing its return electro-mechanical duty-cycle, and is ready to go again, those two white lines should line up horizontally.  If they do not, that is probably your problem, because all those gear micro-switches need to be 'synced' to that line. 

BTW, the so-called "clutch" appears to be a novel pair of special bevel gears that face each other horizontally, and with too much of a load, are axle-mounted such that they can move away from each other laterally to relieve the over-stress on the motor.  This happens, for example, when the large external rotary unit gears are out of sync with their switches, causing one of the micro-switch rotary gear tabs to not engage soon enuff...thus jumping gears and activating the clutch. 

If I am correct, the fix is should be fairly easy.  Page 10 in the Lionel Owner's Manual shows how to align those two white lines.  Simply lift up the long-axled motor drive gear, and realign the movable white line on the rotary gear with the fixed white line.  BTW, if that doesn't fix it, call George!  (He's the only other guy who I know of who has taken one of these suckers apart.)

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