The original flux capacitor built for the train consisted of a wooden box, metal that was arranged as a "Y", and six incandescent light bulbs arranged in a pattern of three on each side of the box. The frictionless dynamo from the hoverboard was able to store multiples of the 1.21 jigowatts that were necessary for time travel. The train uses technology from the hoverboard that was left behind when Marty left 18. Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity. The time train had to have been built from another train either purchased by Doc or by him stealing one the former being more likely since the upper class clothing of the Brown family indicated he had become rich enough to purchase a locomotive of that type. However, the two trains cannot be the same locomotive due to the explosion that destroyed the first train, leaving little of the train on the valley floor. The Time Train is a locomotive of the same design as the one that pushed the DeLorean to 88 mph in 1885. was an 1897 model Rogers 4-6-0 mixed traffic engine. This could mean that this time machine is so powerful that it enables a connection with its destination time even before arriving to that point of time.Īlthough the events of Back to the Future Part III take place in 1885, the locomotive which pushed the DeLorean to 88 m.p.h. Interestingly, before the Time Train appeared, it triggered the bells and gates on the nearby railroad crossing as if another train was coming. On October 27, 1985, when Doc met up with Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker, he chose the most likely place that they might be at that given time, the site of the DeLorean's destruction. The flux capacitor was still included in this design, in the place of the lamp at the front of the locomotive Unlike the DeLorean, the external components of the Time Train were symmetrical on both sides of the vehicle, possibly representing a more sophisticated grasp of the time travel technology on Doc's part, despite being constructed from more primitive materials. When Doc succeeded in its first temporal displacement test, he and his family traveled to 2015 or beyond to give it a hover conversion. The Time Train was a time machine itself that ran off of steam rather than gasoline, built from 1885 to 1895, which took him ten years to build it. Emmett Brown's previous experience with building the DeLorean time machine and working with the steam locomotive that pushed it to 88 m.p.h. The Jules Verne Train or " Train Time Machine" or simply the " Time Train", labeled "ELB" on each side after its creator, was the culmination of Dr. After a moment, Marty and Jennifer remembered to wave back, until the locomotive was no more than a speck in the heavens." -From Back to the Future Part III by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, pages 213 and 214) Doc and his family all waved as the locomotive rose twenty feet in the air, and then proceeded to chug off into the afternoon sky. The whole engine looked like something out of Jules Verne as it braked to a stop beside them." -From Back to the Future Part III by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 212) " He pushed a lever in the locomotive's cab, and, with a rush of steam, the wheels folded underneath the engine and the entire locomotive lifted off the tracks. Except somebody had added a few things to the locomotive's working parts, coils, tubes, even a box with a y-shaped gizmo in it that looked a little like a flux capacitor.
It looked sort of like the locomotive Marty and Doc had stolen - or borrowed, as Doc put it - to get them back to the future.
Jennifer jumped from the truck and ran to his side, as they both stared at the steam locomotive rumbling down the tracks.
" He looked up when he heard the sonic boom.