He said much of the display was completed by Christmas of 2005, but nowhere near the detail it now has. And I began to try to fashion as much of the story into the thing as I could." Being the avid modeler that I am, once I got started on it I guess I got carried away on it. A lot of the table was set up before Hill Valley ever came to mind. "It was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's it,' " Bingham said. His son had a small silver DeLorean in his hand and suggested building Hill Valley.
"And he went upstairs to do whatever he was doing, and a little while later, he comes back downstairs and walks over to me and says, 'Can you do anything with that?' " "One day, my son was home from Ohio State for the weekend, or whatever, and we were down here talking," Bingham said. So he worked on the rural part for a few weeks while trying to decide where to go from there. Recreating Lancaster wouldn't work either, since the downtown area sits partly on a hill.
He said he didn't want to build a simple stock town that others often build. Bingham also has several trains traveling around the town.īingham started building the display in 2005 and didn't have "Back to the Future" in mind at the time. The lighted display sits on an 8-foot-by-7-foot table inside the model railroad tracks and slot car tracks traverse the model, simulating roads.
There are dozens of references to the "Back to the Future" trilogy in the display, including the famous DeLorean time machine, a detailed town square, Lou's Cafe, a movie theater and a church that all depict Hill Valley in 1955.Ī rural area with trees sits just behind the town. McFly and Brown would no doubt feel at home with Bingham, who has built a fully detailed H/O scale model of Hill Valley, California, the pair's hometown, as part of his large model railroad display. Fox's and Christoper Lloyd's time-traveling characters in "Back to the Future II" arrived when traveling from 1985. LANCASTER - City resident Brian Bingham is ready for the arrival of Marty McFly and Dr. The latest evolution of our Citadis tram, the X05, will bring a new dimension Sydney’s public transport network as part of the Sydney Light Rail project.Watch Video: Local man creates 'Back to the Future' railroad set In Sydney, we are supplying our latest Metropolis rolling stock and CBTC signalling system for the new Sydney Metro Northwest, including the maintenance for 15 years. Our X’Trapolis trains dominate the Melbourne suburban network alongside our Citadis Trams that also operate in both Melbourne and Adelaide. In the more recent years, Alstom continues to support the national Transport Sector. Your sustainable infrastructure solutions providerĪlstom has been providing sustainable infrastructure solutions in Australia for more than 100 years and currently employs approximately 1,600 people across more than 25 sites that includes Engineering centers, manufacturing facilities, project delivery offices and maintenance depots & workshops.Īlstom is committed to supporting the Australian & New Zealand railway markets through the application of the latest innovative and proven technologies that are designed to provide an optimal whole of life cost for our customers while delivering a seamless and superior passenger experience.