Impossible Engineering Monster Of The Andes -caffeine S06E03 Subtitles

At 00:00:01,802, Character said: Narrator: This time on

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At 00:00:03,270, Character said: "impossible engineering:
Impossible railroads,"

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At 00:00:07,575, Character said: The incredible challenges
facing mountain railways...

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At 00:00:11,245, Character said: [ woman speaking english ]

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At 00:00:18,119, Character said: Narrator: And the remarkable
engineering solutions...

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At 00:00:20,821, Character said: Man: They told me,
"bruno, you're crazy.

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At 00:00:23,090, Character said: That's impossible."

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At 00:00:24,492, Character said: [ man speaking english ]

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At 00:00:30,164, Character said: Narrator: ...That make
the impossible possible.

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At 00:00:33,034, Character said: -- Captions by vitac --
www.Vitac.Com

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At 00:00:36,870, Character said: Captions paid for by
discovery communications

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At 00:00:41,142, Character said: Narrator: As they make their
epic journeys

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At 00:00:43,411, Character said: Across the continent,

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At 00:00:44,545, Character said: Railroads continue
to push boundaries...

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At 00:00:47,748, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:51,452, Character said: Inspiring engineers
to find new ways

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At 00:00:53,921, Character said: To tackle
all of nature's extremes.

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At 00:00:56,524, Character said: ♪

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At 00:00:59,593, Character said: But there is one challenge
that raises the bar

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At 00:01:02,263, Character said: Higher than any other...

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At 00:01:04,065, Character said: ♪

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At 00:01:06,767, Character said: The mighty peaks
and sheer cliffs of mountains.

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At 00:01:12,940, Character said: From their treacherous,
winding terrain...

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At 00:01:16,077, Character said: Man: Semmering features grades
and curves

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At 00:01:19,180, Character said: That has never conquered before
by a railroad.

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At 00:01:22,650, Character said: Narrator: To impossible inclines
for trains...

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At 00:01:25,486, Character said: Man: The steeper you make it,
the bigger the train you need in

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At 00:01:28,689, Character said: Order to overcome this incline.

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At 00:01:30,724, Character said: Narrator: And passengers to keep
safe and happy.

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At 00:01:33,494, Character said: Man: The challenge here is,
because the natural wall

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At 00:01:36,263, Character said: Is more or less vertical,
so we have to find a way.

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At 00:01:40,801, Character said: Narrator: It was the challenge
of one epic climb

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At 00:01:43,137, Character said: That faced swiss engineers
in the mid 1800s.

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At 00:01:51,145, Character said: The swiss alps,

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At 00:01:52,713, Character said: Part of the largest
mountain range in europe

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At 00:01:56,817, Character said: And home
to some of its highest peaks.

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At 00:02:00,454, Character said: But with their unrelentingly
steep terrain,

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At 00:02:03,190, Character said: These mighty mountains

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At 00:02:04,492, Character said: Are a railroad's
most formidable opponent.

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At 00:02:09,830, Character said: Railroad technician
steffen reichel

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At 00:02:11,966, Character said: Is traveling
on the rigi railway

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At 00:02:14,301, Character said: To see how adaptations
to the track and the engine

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At 00:02:17,605, Character said: Made it one of
the first railroads

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At 00:02:19,373, Character said: To take on a seemingly
impossible mountain climb.

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At 00:02:24,478, Character said: Man: Look at that sunshine.

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At 00:02:26,347, Character said: Look at the rigi mountain.

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At 00:02:28,249, Character said: I love it.

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At 00:02:30,584, Character said: And now you can hear the engine
start working hard,

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At 00:02:35,556, Character said: Because it's very steep on rigi,

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At 00:02:38,359, Character said: And now listen to that noise.
[ engine chugging ]

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At 00:02:40,361, Character said: The fireman is doing his work.

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At 00:02:42,596, Character said: He needs to shovel
500 kilograms of coal

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At 00:02:47,801, Character said: Into the boiler
up to rigi staffel.

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At 00:02:52,806, Character said: Narrator: Today, this train is
one of the most popular

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At 00:02:56,777, Character said: Tourist trains in switzerland,
but in the early 1800s,

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At 00:03:00,748, Character said: The only way to reach
the dizzying heights

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At 00:03:03,083, Character said: Of mount rigi
was on foot or by carriage.

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At 00:03:08,489, Character said: In 1869, engineer and locomotive
builder niklaus riggenbach

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At 00:03:13,394, Character said: Was commissioned
to connect vitznau

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At 00:03:15,329, Character said: On the shores of lake lucerne

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At 00:03:17,231, Character said: With the summit of mount rigi
5,898 feet above sea level.

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At 00:03:23,103, Character said: ♪

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At 00:03:29,910, Character said: Narrator: Having seen trains
slipping and losing traction

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At 00:03:32,313, Character said: On other railroads
with shallower gradients,

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At 00:03:35,182, Character said: Riggenbach knew his solution

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At 00:03:36,951, Character said: Would require
radical rethinking.

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At 00:03:40,321, Character said: The railroad would have to climb
over 3,600 feet

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At 00:03:44,225, Character said: In just over 3 miles.

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At 00:03:46,460, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:01,909, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:03,877, Character said: Narrator: Riggenbach designed
a toothed rack rail

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At 00:04:06,480, Character said: Between the running rails.

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At 00:04:08,582, Character said: A cog wheel was added to
the center of the wheel axle

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At 00:04:11,385, Character said: To mesh with this rack rail
and give the train traction.

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At 00:04:15,089, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:21,195, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:27,334, Character said: Narrator: In 1871,
the rigi railway

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At 00:04:29,803, Character said: Was the first rack-and-pinion
railroad in europe

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At 00:04:32,973, Character said: To conquer a mountain.

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At 00:04:35,976, Character said: Reichel: It's like riggenbach
built a stairway to heaven.

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At 00:04:42,082, Character said: Narrator: Taking nearly
two years to complete,

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At 00:04:44,451, Character said: Riggenbach had finally brought
this mountain to the masses...

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At 00:04:47,955, Character said: ♪

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At 00:04:52,626, Character said: And today,
as many as 500,000 people a year

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At 00:04:56,063, Character said: Make the journey to the summit.

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At 00:05:00,100, Character said: Reichel: Up here, this is one of
the best views

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At 00:05:03,270, Character said: I ever have seen
in my whole life.

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At 00:05:06,840, Character said: I have been to
many mountaintops,

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At 00:05:09,043, Character said: But none of them had
that panorama as we do.

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At 00:05:13,847, Character said: Now I know why riggenbach
conquered the mountain

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At 00:05:15,816, Character said: With that tiny railroad,

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At 00:05:17,284, Character said: But up here,
it's only half of the problem.

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At 00:05:21,322, Character said: Narrator: Having managed to get
the tourists

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At 00:05:22,956, Character said: To the top of the mountain,

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At 00:05:24,325, Character said: The elevated incline
presented riggenbach

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At 00:05:26,527, Character said: With a challenge
of equally tough proportions.

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At 00:05:31,565, Character said: With a 25% gradient,

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At 00:05:34,401, Character said: The rate of descent
was creating too much stress

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At 00:05:37,204, Character said: On the boiler and band brakes
of his locomotive

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At 00:05:40,574, Character said: As well as damaging the track.

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At 00:05:45,179, Character said: Reichel: Usually, on an incline,

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At 00:05:47,014, Character said: Most railways
encountered very problem,

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At 00:05:50,417, Character said: Because the wear on the brakes
was so high

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At 00:05:53,053, Character said: That the brakes could fail,

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At 00:05:54,621, Character said: And so you rode down without
any brakes and could derail,

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At 00:05:58,359, Character said: And many accidents happen.

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At 00:06:01,161, Character said: Narrator:
For a train full of passengers,

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At 00:06:03,063, Character said: This could've been catastrophic.

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At 00:06:05,432, Character said: Riggenbach needed to find a way
to slow the train down.

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At 00:06:10,504, Character said: Reichel: Rigi was too steep
for normal braking systems,

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At 00:06:13,507, Character said: And so he decided to use
a different brake system,

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At 00:06:16,844, Character said: A brake system
which could not fall apart.

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At 00:06:21,448, Character said: Narrator: Riggenbach surmised
that if the engine was

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At 00:06:24,184, Character said: Strong enough to push
the locomotive

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At 00:06:26,220, Character said: And carriages up the mountain,

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At 00:06:27,788, Character said: Then it should be strong enough
to slow it down on its...