The SCRR

The Spring Creek Railroad
G Scale Model Railway
Conductor Jerry Barnes
Engineer Jerry Barnes

Winter on the SCRR

A Covered Bridge being built for the SCRR
This Covered Bridge is being built using plans available at:


The floor is attached and the side is on for a test fit. Note the added angle braces under the floor.


The 1/4" plywood has been applied to the plywood rafter triangles. Trim will be added. The shingle plan is to rip down 1/8" strips of redwood 1 1/2" wide and use a saw blade to make fine cuts to simulate 1' wide shingles. The strips will be put on, over lappping as you do shingles. Should look fine from a distance.	Here you can see inside the roof and how the plywood tri angels are made. Jerry used a small piece of wood to turn to lock the roof down-it is removable in case of derailments. The plywood will be primered and painted to insure longevity

Jerry made this jig to space and hold the blocks while screwing them to the Trex 'ladder' strips with the Trex blocks in between. This makes it rigid and gives a good level track base. The track will sit on top of the Trex when it is leveled.	Jerry made these rotating 'tabs' to lock the roof in place, but make it easy to remove the roof, in case of derailment. You don't want a live steamer cooking inside your wood covered bridge!

A close-up of the planked side. Strips are 1/2" wide about 1/8" thick. Cut to length with some metal nips.	A trial fit of the painted roof(shingles will go over it). Fits fine! The open area on the side will be left as it is. The gabeled roof ends will be planked.

Ends of the covered bridge are getting planked, then the roof!	Yes there is light at the end of the tunnel. The completed bridge.

The bridge is all done and mounted to the blocks. This gives you an overall feeling of how it fits in the railroad.	The bridge is tied down to a screw drilled into the block below it and to an eyebolt in the bottom of the frame.

The West sun really brings out the details in the bridge.	In this detail you can see the dry brushing of the darker stain over the lighter to enhance the shingle texture.

This eye level shot gives you a good idea of it's span.

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	Steam in the Garden Magazine Lots of good steam info and people who know steam
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	Colorado Model Structures Very reasonable priced buildings a building parts for your railroad.
	Union Pacific Railroads This web site has information on their two live steamers they still run and where they are going to on excursions. You can follow them on line.
	Vietnam Transportation Association Good web site if you are interested in transportation in the Vietnam war
	A web site devoted solely to the Gun Trucks used in Vietnam and now in Iraq. Many good pictures.
	Modeling Vietnam Gun Trucks This site will show you how Jerry has donehis Gun Truck Models.
	Heartland Military Museum Museum at Lexington, NE on I-80. Devoted to vehicles used by the military.
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	The Covered Bridges of New Brunswick Canada
	The Covered Bridges of Nova Scotia Canada
	The Old Railway Stations of Canada
	Visit Lonnie Hedgepeth's of Rocky Mount, North Carolina site. He has used the plans provided on my web page and is building a Covered Bridge for his Live Steam train.
	The building trades class at Darlington HS in Darlington, Wisconsin built this covered bridge for a local business man
	Julie and her father Gary built a model bridge using the plans on my Covered Bridge site for a school project
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	A tribute to the Steam Locomotives of the CPR
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