I've been meaning to repaint this old sd-45 that I hardly ever used. It runs fine and it even has a Sierra sound board in it that sounds really good but it still had the original Aristo couplers on it (I switched to Kadee) years ago. I got this from my wife for Christmas years ago and it had the Santa Fe silver and red warbonnet paint scheme. It needed a new battery for the sound system and since I had to take it apart to replace the battery I decided it was time to go all the way and do a complete makeover. It will be repainted for my CJM in the green /yellow /grey livery. I'm also switching it over to Kadee 930's and adding L.E.D. headlites and ditchlites and walkway lites, The lites will be powered by a 9 volt battery hidden in the fuel tank . I've done this lighting system on a couple of my latest locomotives and like the results. The first thing I did was take it completely apart and soak the plastic parts in 91% alcahol overnite. I use a wallpaper tub to do my paint removal . Its long enough to fit all my parts in it. Here is a few shots of the progress so far.Here's most of the parts after a night in the bath.