Back To The Future: All The Things You Missed

Model Trains

The final train race results in an amazing sequence that ends in the train driving straight off a cliff’s edge. It might look fantastic in the final version of the film, but that doesn’t mean that the filmmakers actually pulled off such a feat.

Back To The Future
Universal Pictures

Of course, it’s actually a small model that’s one quarter the size of the real train. This is to make sure everything was done in a cheap and safe way. In fact, this model train has appeared in other western films for the same reason.