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America: Facts vs. Fiction Season 2 Episode 12
The truth about great feats of engineering can be clouded by myth. Discover that the Panama Canal doesn’t run east and west, but north and south. And that the Transcontinental Railroad wasn’t completed at Utah’s Promontory Point.
Serie: America: Facts vs. Fiction
Episode Title: Engineering the Impossible
Air Date: 2014-12-30
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