Synopsis

This season, Jamie and Adam are attempting something entirely new: recreating a vacuum-induced implosion. Legend has it that a freight train tank car, undergoing steam cleaning, was caught in a sudden downpour. The engineers, believing they’d finished the job, sealed the container full of hot steam and went home. As the rain cooled the tank car, the steam condensed and shrank, creating immense pressure—enough, supposedly, to crush the massive steel car like an empty soda can. Could it really hap