I had fun tonight. I guy I work with gave me a brand new never run Bachman train set from 1978. The engine is chrome with red paint it is a Sante Fe GP 40 I think.Anyway it came with the standard gondola,cattle car, coal car,box car and caboose. The engine had never been out of the box. I lubed it and cleaned the wheels and put it on my track and let it go.It took about three times around, stopping and starting and then it took off. I let the engine itself run alone for about a 1/2 hour then I hooked the cars up and let it go. Man, I had a blast. It was fun to watch a 30+ year old never ran "train set"go on my layout, horn hook couplers and all. In a way it was sort of a nice break from the scale speed,detail,smooth running "modeltrains". I had to run it at a high speed(like a kid would do) to make it go but man once it got going it was cool. It gave off that old electric smell like an old slotcar track.You guys from back in the day know what I mean. Kinda funny to see a 20.00 train set blow by a 300.00 engine.When I first got the set I planned on painting the engine and making it a dummy and scrapping the cars but after getting it to run as best as I can, I am leaving it alone. I will put the whole set on a display shelf and every once in a while put it on my layout.PS: I thought to myself what kid who got a trainset as a gift would not use it but the guy who gave it to me said that he never had any interest in trains he liked rockets. Lucky me