28, another train that's appeared in movies. 3 resides in Railtown 1897, a State Historic Park in Jamestown, California that's also home to the less famous Baldwin No. When it's not on Hollywood duty, Sierra No. It's also appeared on numerous TV shows, including The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie. Its most famous appearances include 1929's The Virginian and 1952's High Noon, both starring Gary Cooper 1965's The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood and 1992's Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood alongside Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Richard Harris. 3 first caught the eye of producers making Westerns, and its movie career dates back to 1919. Here's why the train from Back to the Future means more than you think. Whichever comes first.īack to the Future III features many familiar faces from the previous movies as well as some Hollywood royalty (Oscar winner Mary Steenburgen) and a few titans of the music industry (look out for cameos by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Flea and blues rock band ZZ Top.) But there's another major presence that you may have seen in other movies, without even realizing it. The plan is to use a steam train to push the car along until it reaches the right speed - or until it falls off the yet-to-be-completed railroad tracks. With no gasoline to power the modified DeLorean to that 88-mile-per-hour sweet spot, they adapt to their environment.

We already have the entire Back to the Future timeline explained, so suffice it to say the third movie opens with our time traveling heroes stuck in the Wild West in 1885. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) didn't need roads where they went in Back to the Future II - but they could have done with some extra train tracks in the trilogy's grand finale.

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