I got my rigging fouled up too. Quickly learned to put scotch tape over the rollers before looking around too much. One 2 am rerigging seesion was enough. Dale, thanks, it's good to know Lionel has repaired this before. I believe I did send did back to them once. Well, she's going back again.
This was first issue of the crane. Another lesson learned. Wail till Lionel works out the bugs before jumping into anything new and technical. The models a year or two later probably don't have this problem. I'm getting tired of learning lessons. I just wanna have fun!
Thanks again guys