Mighty Machines
Mighty Machines focuses on footage of real machines (firetrucks, airplanes, freight trains, snow plows) working. Voiceovers tell the story of how the machines work together to get work done.
Genre: Family
Cast:Tee Schneider , Christopher Quinn , Alan Bacchus , Oliver Svendsen , Edward Daranyi , Chuck Vollmar , Suzanne Hersh , Patte Rosebank , Santo Lupo
S1.E1 ∙ At the Airport
It's a busy day at the Toronto Pearson international airport as big commercial planes get checked over in the hanger before they are loaded with baggage, receive catering supplies, get filled with jet fuel and are pushed back from the gate.
S1.E2 ∙ At the Quarry
Front-end loaders scoop up rock after the blasting and fill up the huge Euclid trucks. A giant crusher grinds up the rock and conveyors carry it to the storage yard to be loaded onto gravel trucks.
S1.E3 ∙ In the City
Street sweepers, street washers, storm sewer vacuums, tree trimmers and stump grinders work to keep the city of Toronto clean and green.
S1.E4 ∙ In theHarbour
The police boat patrols the harbor and greets all the ferry boats, the little sailboats, the fireboat and the visiting cargo ships. Even the tall ships come to visit.
S1.E5 ∙ At the Construction Site
Huge shovels dig foundations, bulldozers smooth the ground, cranes lift curtain walls and air conditioning units at the site of two city hospitals.
S1.E6 ∙ At the Race Track
Giant 18-wheelers carry race cars to the big race. Special equipment prepares the cars for the race. In the pit stops, tires are changed, gas gets topped up, and the cars head back out to scream around the track.
S1.E7 ∙ At the Demolition Site
Grapples and shear tractors knock down a brick factory after dynamite blows up the giant smokestack. Bulldozers and front-end loaders pack metal onto trucks to haul it to the steelworks.
S1.E8 ∙ At the Train Yard
Engines shunt cars around in the yard to make up a train that will travel across the country. Cars are connected together, brake lines hooked up, automobiles unloaded from special bi-level cars and freight cars emptied at a truck depot.
S1.E9 ∙ At the Fire Hall
All the parts of a fire truck are explored and explained as the firemen practice a drill, hooking up to the hydrant and testing their aerial spraying platform.
S1.E10 ∙ On the Road
A shiny red 18-wheeler transport truck starts its day with a visit to the truck stop to gas up before it heads out on the highway. At the produce warehouse, workers pack a load of carrots onto the big trailer.
S1.E11 ∙ At the Garbage Dump
City garbage trucks pick up the trash from the curb and deliver it to the transfer station where it's rammed into special trucks to go to the landfill. Enormous tractors roll and compact the garbage before it gets covered with dirt.
S1.E12 ∙ At the Cement Yard
Gravel trucks deliver crushed stone and sand to make the concrete that is mixed in the cement trucks. Concrete pours out of the trucks to make sidewalks and foundations for streetcar tracks.
