Each Mighty Machines episode focuses on a specific type of heavy equipment or work environment.

Mighty Machines was nominated for a Gemini Award in 1996 in the category of "Best Children's Program or Series".

Credited voice actors of season 1 are Loredana Cunti, Tim Brown, Jennifer Martin, Noah Segal, Joel Cohen, Greg Blanchard, Gord Rutherford, Claire Rothman, Arthur Holden, John Metcalfe, and Steve Murphy.

The featured machines that do this include Dusty, an FMC Vanguard 3000 street sweeper who sweeps the roads, Vacuum Vic, a Navistar International S2500 vacuum truck who cleans out sewers, Gusher, a Ford CT8000 street sprinkler semi-truck who sprays water on the roads.

The building under construction in Downtown Toronto is the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, it was built as an extension to The Campbell Family Building which became part of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and was completed in 1995.

Footage of Alessandro Zampedri in his number 19 Mi-Jack Lola T93/00 race car during the 1994 Molson Indy Toronto was used for the show's intro.

Grapple, a Komatsu hydraulic claw excavator loads scrap metal into Mack.

This episode was filmed at the former St. Lawrence Starch Company factory in Port Credit, Mississauga which was located at Hurontario Street and Lakeshore Road East.

It's unknown if there is any truth to Dino's claim that the area was supposed to be redeveloped into a "great big park for kids".

Some of the footage used for the episode is not in chronological order, the tall concrete chimney can be seen already demolished in some shots despite the demolition segment of it had not been shown yet.

The episode also features some members of the North York Fire Department doing their training exercise.

On The Road Big Hoss, a Peterbilt 379 semi-truck shows viewers how he gets hooked up to a refrigerated trailer, then he takes viewers out on the road as he travels to a Husky truck stop to get his fuel tanks filled up, deliver empty pallets, and pick up a load of carrots.

The story continues at the dump where Big Red, Pee-Wee, a bulldozer, and Spike, a compactor explain how the landfill works.

This episode was filmed at the Disco Transfer Station in Etobicoke and the Keele Valley landfill in Vaughan.

Sally, a Caterpillar front end loader, keeps the gravel piles in the yard tidy.

For Season 2, the scripts were written by Bill Freeman, and the voice actors are Edward Daranyi, Santo Lupo, Christopher Quinn, Patte Rosebank, Tanya Schneider, Chuck Vollmar, Alan Bacchus, Suzanne Hersh, Oliver Svendsen, and Hannah Cheesman.

Deep Underground Ranger, Scoop, Cutter, Driller, Scaler and Crusher, a series of machines operating in a salt mine, explain how to find the salt, scoop it up, and carry it to the surface of the mine.

Ranger, a jeep inspects while Driller pokes holes for explosives, Cutter digs the opening of the mine, Scoop, a front loader picks up the rocks, Scaler, a wheeled continuous mining excavator with a wall scraper scrapes off all of the salt.

After all the salt has been dug up, it gets loaded on a conveyer belt into a cargo ship named Selene to be taken to the public works to be used for icy roads.

This was filmed in Goderich Harbour, Ontario at the Sifto Canada salt mine on Lake Huron.

His friends Cat, Grapple, Buzz, Scoop, and Big Red are many of the other machines that explain how the lumber will soon be turned into wood.

Bulldozers, Scrapers, and Soil Compactors, help out with the foundations, then the asphalt crew lays down the road.

Jock, a dump truck brings the asphalt to the site, Lenny, a Paver, and Rod, a roller flatten it all down.

Various public transport vehicles are featured in this episode, including Buddy, an OC Transpo bus, Clara, and Neville, two streetcars, an O-Train, a GO Train and a Toronto subway train, who in turn explain their jobs of picking up the passengers and dropping them off exactly where they want to be.

For season 3, the voice actors are Chris Quinn, Kim Godfrey, Shawn Colin, Todd Schick, Dave Crichton, Blair Bailey, Nick Tracey, Colin Kirley, Suzanne Hersh, Wesley Cudlip, Bill Freeman, Derek Pert, Joe Pillitteri, and Chandra Wohleber.

Bringing In The Harvest A group of tractors retrieve tomatoes from the farm and put them into the Factory.

Also features Clipper, who clips grapes and a truck who brings them to a factory to make wine.

Stretch is ready to make the big lift while Gipsy Lady a Sikorsky s64 sky crane helps change ac units on the roof of a factory.

Features a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, "Fast Forward", a Floridian air boat, and "Empress" a modern paddle wheel cruise ship.

This is one of three episodes filmed outside Canada; which is the air boat sequence where it takes place in the Everglades.