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Engineering Catastrophes

With the cause known, engineers made plansto replace the temporary railcars witha...

NARRATOR:
With the cause known, engineers made plans
to replace the temporary railcars with
a permanent pair of bridges

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NARRATOR: With the cause known,
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engineers made plans to replace
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the temporary railcars with a permanent pair of bridges.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
12
Timestamp in Movie
00:11:43
Uploaded
Oct 28, 2025
Season
6
Episode
9
Genres
documentary
Production
Moviecoop

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.
S06 • E02 [narrator] South Padre islan sits on the Gulf of Mexico. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:40
[narrator] South Padre islan sits on the Gulf of Mexico.
S06 • E10 And all of it was pinned in on an electrical substation - Engineering Catastrophes 00:45
And all of it was pinned in on an electrical substation
S06 • E08 The feature of this one here is it only had 6 millimeter spiral. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:05
The feature of this one here is it only had 6 millimeter spi...
S06 • E01 [narrator] That explained the cause of the blast, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:22
[narrator] That explained the cause of the blast,
S06 • E03 [narrator] For more than a decade, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:24
[narrator] For more than a decade,
S06 • E09 This time, changes would be made - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
This time, changes would be made
S06 • E08 So it's a very thin wire, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:10
So it's a very thin wire,
S06 • E07 NARRATOR: Big infrastructure can be key - Engineering Catastrophes 00:06
NARRATOR: Big infrastructure can be key
S06 • E04 {\an8}And with over 20 million vehicles a year testing the welds, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:19
{\an8}And with over 20 million vehicles a year testing the w...
S06 • E09 One of the things that is going to prevent this - Engineering Catastrophes 00:09
One of the things that is going to prevent this
S06 • E08 Essentially, the columns weren't up to the job that they were designed for, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
Essentially, the columns weren't up to the job that the...
S06 • E07 But when trouble strikes, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:07
But when trouble strikes,
S06 • E06 Just as the crane starts tipping, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:09
Just as the crane starts tipping,
S06 • E05 [narrator] On the southern edge of Spain, along the Costa Tropical, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:18
[narrator] On the southern edge of Spain, along the Costa Tr...
S06 • E09 Now it has a much wider width that it can flow through - Engineering Catastrophes 00:11
Now it has a much wider width that it can flow through
S06 • E08 It's gonna drag all the other ones down with it. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:24
It's gonna drag all the other ones down with it.
S06 • E01 So many things so close to a fertilizer plant - Engineering Catastrophes 00:33
So many things so close to a fertilizer plant
S06 • E06 But you can imagine if I start tipping forward at that point, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
But you can imagine if I start tipping forward at that point...
S06 • E07 Like this disaster in Canada, - Engineering Catastrophes 00:08
Like this disaster in Canada,
S06 • E06 Ultimately, this was beyond the point of no return. - Engineering Catastrophes 00:15
Ultimately, this was beyond the point of no return.