The trickiest part of this build has to be making a road car behave on rails, and the maker handled it neatly. The DeLorean's original wheels came off and spoked railroad wheels went on in their place, and the frame underneath was reworked so the car copes with curved track. The maker describes the whole conversion as super easy, which sounds almost cheeky given how tidy the result looks rolling down the line.
The scene works as a kinetic display: a steam locomotive pushes the silver DeLorean along a miniature track, and the push succeeds, with the car staying ahead of the engine through the run. The locomotive's side rods move while the car's wheels turn in sync with the running gear, and that coordinated motion is what sells the whole sequence for me.
Plenty of small touches stand out. The locomotive carries a working headlight, and the tender wears white lettering reading SIERRA RAILROAD. The landscape around the pair is filled in as well: gravel track bed, model trees, a wooden fence, a water tower and small buildings, plus small human and animal figures and a telegraph pole to give the scene a lived-in feel.
The one open question for me concerns pacing. A voice in the audio reminds us the car must reach 88, yet the build as it stands covers the push along the tracks. Whether the run can be staged to sell that speed moment on a home layout is the thing I would most like to see explored next.