10-19-2010, 07:16 PM
Bil,
This is definitely going to be an easier one than the Alco... (an honourary steam loco, so if you still want to call this your "first" diesel, I think that's fair).
This one should take the Soundtraxx 113 oval speaker in the end of the long hood. Just build a styrene enclosure for it, and seal the holes (and the enclosure) with Krystal Kleer or canopy cement.
Some people will tell you to fire the speaker out the fan/radiator holes, but I find that having the speaker fire downwards through the trucks trims off a lot of the shrill high-end that these speakers make. You can decide for yourself of course, but my preference would be to paint the enclosure black and stuff it up into the hood under the fans, and fire the speaker down over the truck. It looks like there's a fair bit of room over the gear tower there, so you should get some good volume out of it.
This is definitely going to be an easier one than the Alco... (an honourary steam loco, so if you still want to call this your "first" diesel, I think that's fair).
This one should take the Soundtraxx 113 oval speaker in the end of the long hood. Just build a styrene enclosure for it, and seal the holes (and the enclosure) with Krystal Kleer or canopy cement.
Some people will tell you to fire the speaker out the fan/radiator holes, but I find that having the speaker fire downwards through the trucks trims off a lot of the shrill high-end that these speakers make. You can decide for yourself of course, but my preference would be to paint the enclosure black and stuff it up into the hood under the fans, and fire the speaker down over the truck. It looks like there's a fair bit of room over the gear tower there, so you should get some good volume out of it.