PHOTOS - Back to the Future - How they filmed it

The ending to "Tough Guys" is similar. Scenes of SP DAYLIGHT GS-4 4449 crashing through a bumper and plowing into the dirt are enough to give her fans fits. But she stood steaming safe and sound next to a weathered, half-buried replica.

I'm not seeing pics??? Any one else??

hello guys and gals.........

I have that movie and it was really SAD to see that handsome ten wheeler being destroyed !!!!!!!!!.  Tell me guys did they (movie makers) used the real engine in the movie after falling off the half completed trestle to complete destruction down below or did they use life size fake engine ?

the woman who loves toy trains

Tiffany

It was a model, not life sized.

Sierra No. 3 is safe, sound and running.

With a brand-spanking new boiler, too!  She's good for another 100 years!

 

I'm REALLY surprised no company (with the exception of the difficult to assemble long gone Arbor Models and the slightly oversized Mantua-Tyco HO models)  has made a model of her.

 

Rusty

I posted the photos as usual and all 13 show up here OK. Can anyone see them?

No, just the following error message if you try to click on any of the links:

 

The page you requested is not available. Reference ID: 6498170289656246[-831635967][-1371202990]TUR-146PROFILEFIELDS.r15444.b83-db075.ps001

 

Just the picture names.  The link send me to an error page.

I re added the photos  -- ANYTHING now?

Much better!  Thanks!

 

i can see fine

Bingo!   Thanks!

Cool pics but I see someone misspelled Michael J Fox name wrong.  

I also miss spell that name.

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000150/

Darn, I was hoping to be the first to notice that! 

The Editor NEVER sleeps...  

RMC magazine had a great article on the circus train used in filming of the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade around 1989. I think it was on the Chamas and Toltec. It was a cool looking train I always thought.

Which is worse, mis-spelling Michael or mis-spelling mis-spelled?

 

One of my all-time favorite movies, especially the first one.  Nicely done.  Thanks for sharing!

  My scentimints eggsacktly. 

This is really cool, but I was hoping for behind the scenes shots of the scale model of #3 they ran off the trestle.

My brother is named Michael but I never considered how oddly spelled that name is.

Sam very nice , great detail.

 

Thanks, Alex

In this case, I imagine the spelling of the person's name simply because it is so prominent in the image.  Easy enough to correct, of course, and it certainly doesn't detract from what is overall a superb modeling effort.

Yep, "Michael" is misspelled, as is "miss spell". At least we didn't get Tori Spelling

involved.

 

Sheesh.

Wait:  if you misspell something wrong, does that make the spelling right?  You know, that old double negative thing.

 

LOL

 

Just messing with you Chris

 

Maybe reading comprehension is the real culprit?

The BTTF movies are some of my all time favorites.  Harold and Josh did a great job!

The Steam Locomotive was a 1/8th scale replica built to fall into the ravine.

 

The Time Machine DeLorean that was used on the rails and that was smashed at the end of the movie was a replica. If one examines still photos of all the various DeLorean Time Machines, it is possible to see all the approximate parts used on the railroad wheel version that was destined to be smashed.

 

Andrew

Hallmark has a new Keepsake Ornament of the Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine that looks like it is 1:48th scale as well as a Trans Am and a Ford Truck.

 

Andrew

I'm glad they're not destroying trains Now if only they could figure out a way to make a movie without destroying real 1968-70 Dodge Chargers (see "Dukes of Hazard," "Like Mike," "F&F" to see what I mean).

Just makes those left even more valuable!!  I hate seeing any vintage car destroyed in film but most times they are bondo filled cars no one really wants. The 'Star cars' are saved......

I work in props sometimes. For Broadway I've cut up and rebuilt Parts doner Junkers the chrome was worth more than the car body. Usually we don't use the frame just panels anyway. I've done a 23 model T, a 32 A and a 56 Plymouth. For the Fords I even built wooden fake engines because the actors open the hoods. Because we had to fly them for stage storage we couldn't use the real ones(too heavy). The Plymouth was the most fun because that we built as a convertible and chopped 1 1/2 feet out of the center and built  one side forward so it appeared as a foreshortened 3/4 view. All that and the actors danced on the hood.

The cars we used were doner cars from car restorers who were happy not to just throw them away. The parts they needed to restore the cars they were working on were used up anyway.

Oh and my father was in Arizona and watched some of the  BTTFuture3 filming out there he saw some of the Indian chase.