Mega Movers
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How do you move a 180-foot-long railroad bridge? An eight-story lighthouse? A 500-ton oil rig? Or an entire beach all in one week? Mega Movers examines the intricate business of planning and the incredible strength required to move these massive structures — without massive disasters.

2006 · 44m
  • 8+
Starring Ray Van Ness

Season 1

  • Fragile Giants
    EPISODE 1
    Fragile Giants
    Join us on two treacherous trips as we follow two separate structural moving families in their struggles to relocate and save a 100-year-old homestead and an 1890 Queen Anne Victorian house. In Colorado, a father and son have to fight fierce weather and the fragility of a purported haunted log cabin and decaying barn to move them two miles across a rugged mountainside. In Illinois, three generations of movers are pushed to their limit when they are hired to transport a 180-ton monster house across town. Will these historic homes reach their final resting places in one piece and find peace?
    44m
  • 900 Ton Building
    EPISODE 2
    900 Ton Building
    The Matyiko brothers are a legendary Mega Mover family. Their company Expert House Movers entered the record books when they moved the historic Gem Theatre in Detroit, The Schubert Theatre in Minneapolis and the Cape Hattarass Lighthouse. In this Mega Movers episode the brothers battle time and the elements. In Massachusetts, the clock is ticking to move a 900-ton brick building to its new location. Any delays will cost the veteran house movers thousands of dollars. And in North Carolina, three vacation houses must make a perilous journey across 8 miles of open beach to reach their new home. Will the homes arrive safely? Or, will the treacherous waters of the Outer Banks claim yet another victim?
    44m
  • Oil Machines
    EPISODE 3
    Oil Machines
    Oil is the lifeblood of the world's economy, and it's up to the Mega Movers to make sure that this flow is uninterrupted. Off the coast of Singapore, one of the largest and most unusual ships ever built will transport an entire 22,000-ton oil rig to the Gulf of Mexico. Making the 14,000-mile trek across two oceans will test the skills of both man and machine. And in Alaska, the pressure is on to move an 80-by-60-foot pump station on the Trans-Alaskan pipeline. But an approaching winter storm threatens to stop this move cold. Will these vital oil industry components successfully reach their destinations?
    44m
  • B-25 Bomber
    EPISODE 4
    B-25 Bomber
    In 1943, a B-25 Mitchell - the most versatile twin-engine bomber of World War II - Crash-landed in South Carolina. It sank 150 feet to the bottom of a lake and over time was forgotten. 60 years later, a local doctor is determined to raise the giant bomber intact and give it to a museum. A MEGA MOVERS team of divers, engineers and preservationists take on the job of moving the 20,000-pound bomber to the surface. They will have to over come the challenges of working in nearly zero visibility murky waters, an approaching hurricane and the belief the plane is breaking apart.
    44m
  • Locomotives
    EPISODE 6
    Locomotives
    Travel back to the golden age of railroads in this episode of Mega Movers. A small Washington town is determined to save their cherished train depot from the wrecking ball. But time and Mother Nature have taken their toll on the aging structure. Will the old depot once again welcome tourists to the town of Morton? Meanwhile in two Texas cities Mega Movers are moving two unique locomotives using two different methods - one that's been used for more then 150 years. And another that's on the cutting edge of Mega Mover technology. Watch how these giant locomotives roll again for the first time in 50 years.
    40m
  • Lost & Found
    EPISODE 7
    Lost & Found
    Mega Movers are called upon to lift two hidden treasures out of obscurity. In Pennsylvania movers must lift an entire historic 1938 diner out of a building that has covered it for more than 50 years. But moving the cherished landmark unscathed will pose quite a challenge for everyone involved. Meanwhile, a determined mining historian must rescue a gigantic 1923 steam shovel that has been hidden high up in the Colorado Rockies. Will 30 years of sludge and the rugged terrain stop this move before it even begins?
    43m

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Cast & Crew

  • R‌V
    Ray Van Ness
    Narrator
  • R‌D
    Rasha Drachkovitch
    Producer
  • P‌J
    Philip J. Marshall
    Producer

About

Mega Movers

Documentary

How do you move a 180-foot-long railroad bridge? An eight-story lighthouse? A 500-ton oil rig? Or an entire beach all in one week? Mega Movers examines the intricate business of planning and the incredible strength required to move these massive structures — without massive disasters.

8+

COMMON SENSE

Massive relocations make for intriguing tween TV.

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HISTORY
Released
2006
Rated
TV-14
Region of Origin
United States
© 2006 A&E Television Networks. All Rights Reserved.

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