Adding a speaker to Shay diamond smokestack

[billkohler]

I am converting a large-scale 3-truck Shay to battery R/C using a QSI Titan Magnum power/sound decoder.

This decoder has stereo sound outputs, allowing sounds to be 'positioned', i.e. appear to be coming from different locations on the locomotive.

I think it would be awesome to have chuff sounds coming from the stack rather than from the tender, where the main speaker is located.

I'm using the diamond stack (following the Cass Scenic Railroad's prototype practice), which could (theoretically) hold a small round speker in the diamond-shaped part of the stack (I don't use the smoke generator).

The manual shows the stack is made of seperate top and bottom cones, but they don't look like they can be seperated.

Does anyone know whether they are permanently fused together, or can they be seperated somehow??

Thanks,

Bill Kohler