My reason for not buying this set was that I did not have a place to run such a magnificent and long O scale train, and have never owned a shelf queen--it's easily my favorite streamliner from the period.
Flash forward 6 months and I now belong to a club with a large permanent layout that's available to me 24/7; and, an even bigger traveling layout to run on once Covid 19 restrictions are removed and the venues resume their traditional dates. My bad luck.