The SCRR

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

E-8 conversion

Jerry had always wanted a rounded nose E-8 for his streamliner set, it was the engine that pulled the UP passenger trains he used to ride on, but no one made it, so he settled for the FA-1 A&B set. Aristo finally brought out an E-8, but it was very LONG and would look bad with his short passenger cars he made. A friend wanted an E-8B but Aristo only made the A unit, so he cut off the cab of an E-8A to make his B unit. Jerry traded his FA-1A cab for it and put it on his FA unit-which was shorter.


The cab fit on the FA body quite well, some bondo/sanding and it was ready for paint.	Jerry was able to mask off the UP winged herald, when he repainted it.

The side view. Note the more streamlined look	Here is the finished product. Sylvia cut the lettering out of vinyl for him. Note the round 'windows'. They are also vinyl to give the look of the round windows an E-8 had. Jerry did tape off the E-8 emblem on the side.

The B unit was also given the E8 'look'	Jerry made all his cars about 15 years ago and they were sorely in need of repaint/lettering. Sylvia also cut the lettering for the cars-what a wife! :-) Jerry made the decal for the back

Here is a picture of all the coaches. Someday he hopes to make a baggage car to move the batteries to and finish off the kitchen/diner car.

The Eggliner


Jerry bought a Aristocraft Eggliner(yellow car) at Marty's, he had always wanted one. It is powered with an Aristo motor block. Once he got it home, he was surprised that Aristo did not offer coaches for it, so he got some observation car end caps(which is what the Eggliner is made from) from ebay and got to work.	He thought it would be fun to make on of the coaches into an observation car with an open rear deck. One of the ends he got had the door with it. So, he cut out the window area. He used some caboose steps from a cheap New Bright car for it's steps. There is a wrap around seat also.

The Eggliner had a odd UP yellow paint color, luckily Marty had come up with a mix for a match and sent some to Jerry. He used his airbrush to paint the cars. Red striping tape is next and his wife Sylvia will cut him some UP lettering with her vinyl sign cutting machine.	Jerry used some old Aristo Heavyweight trucks, putting one under each coach. Note the door on the open observation coach.

Here you can see the side frames and trucks clearly. He cut down some side frames to put on the Eggliner itself, since it had nothing on the sides of the wheels.	Jerry got the Eggliner coaches finished up in time to run it around the tree at Christmas. Note the snowplow on the Eggliner locomotive-only difference from the cars he made.

His wife Sylvia cut the Union Pacific lettering with her vinyl sign cutter(she used to have a home business).	The observation coach has a blinking red LED. It and the other lights are powered by a battery box Christmas light set that had 4 wires with 5 small lights on each wire. The battery box is in the center coach and plugs connect it to the lights in the other coaches. The locomotive right now is track powered and has it's own lights. See the video for all the lights.

Jerry got the Eggliner up and running around the Christmas tree	You can see Santa riding in the observation car. He was one of the Christmas figures you see for sale every year for the little villages

The Egg Car Video

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	Jerry's Jukebox
	Jerry's Paintings that he did of things he saw while serving his tour of duty in Vietnam
	Pictures that Jerry took during his tour of duty in Vietnam
	Jerry's Model Ships
	My Large Scale dot Com This site is probably the best G scale site there is
	Steam in the Garden Magazine Lots of good steam info and people who know steam
	Aristo Craft Trains This is a a good web site with forums and is split into steam, electric and a few other categories
Live Steam 1/29	A site that Don McKay started up devoted solely to the Aristo Craft Live Steam Mikad o
	Large Scale Tech Tips This site was started by George Schreyer years ago. Lots of good info there
	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.
	Always Jukin' Magazine Site devoted to jukeboxes, many ads and stories
	Fast Hits Music If you are looking for that certain 45 for your jukebox, this is the place to go to
	Kitabee Books Lexington, NE At Kitabee Books, we sell new and used books, book accessories & magnetic poetry kits.
If you have any questions or comments please use this link to email Jerry at jerrybarnes@nospamthescrr.com Please remove the nospam from the address

	John's Old Car and Truck Pictures
	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
	A tribute to the Steam Locomotives of the CNR
	A tribute to the Steam Locomotives of the CPR
	Ed's Marble Etchings

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