I'm still around 
The silver/blue R12 set looks interesting...I may be in for one set to intermix with my silver/blue R17's (especially now that its power car matches its real-life big brother--the 1:1 scale #6688 now wears the same paint scheme as its model)
I don't know about the retooled R40's. I never really got the chance to run mine since at the time I set them up I only had a Z1000 and it didn't have the oomph to run a 10-car train. On top of that, I'm considering an LED upgrade for that one since the real ones had fluorescent lighting.
The biggest bugaboo is time. I have full subway sets (R21, R17, R36, R40, R32, R1, LV) that I have yet to run. I bought four-figures worth of locomotives in 2014 that are still propped up in the corner of the dining room waiting to be run on my loop. Even the pictures of stuff I bought at this past York is still waiting to be included in the current "what did you get" thread because of an unloading-ramp scene I'm trying to build in the test-track yard for one of pieces I acquired.
---PCJ
