Engineering360: "10 Funny Civil Engineering Fails to Brighten Up Your Day"

In point of fact, these are examples of inspection, architectural, carpenter, plumber, Permiting, and/or communication fails, not Civil Engineering Fails...

The railroad example may have been a failure of excessive use, and the railroad bed designer may, or may not, have been a Civil Engineer...

OK, some of these are quite puzzling! The thought processes to get to these results...

But as for the last picture of the railway: That looks like a kick-out (or buckling) of the rails under excessive longitudinal forces due to high temperatures and/or inadequate lateral support, and the staff are just starting to repair it.

Alternately, notice that, primarily, the extra track length to (supply) room for the track to horizontally sway (towards the viewer's right) is a straightening of the downhill railway from a left-ward turning rail roadbed (for trains coming downhill) a little too rapidly, for the conditions, and hard-braking towards the bottom of the slope, causing the track horizontal curvature to become more of a geometric chord, rather than remaining more of the originally designed portion of a horizontal circle...

I saw a similar picture of the railroad track after an earthquake in New Zealand a few years ago. I assume they fixed it by now. I must admit that I played with the picture a wee bit, and connected the left rail to the right one, and the right rail to the left one. making it totally unusable, but the original picture was for real

Bill

Is there Civil Engineering failure or civil engineers failure? Or the just the constructor fails while building without civil engineers. lol!