The first four tunnel boring machines are coming to New Jersey to build the Gateway rail tunnel. Here's what they do and why ...

Work to begin digging a new Hudson Tunnel is set to begin this spring as two tunnel boring machines custom-built for the ...

The boring machines were manufactured in Germany for just one of 10 sections that make up the $16 billion Gateway project to build a new tube for Amtrak and NJ Transit trains into Penn Station. The ...

Crews are now drilling a launch pit to hold the massive tunnel-boring machine for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement project. The project will be using the largest diameter tunnel boring machine ever ...

Sections of the German-made tunnel boring machines were shipped to ports in Elizabeth and Baltimore. They will reach North ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The first commuter rail service through the new Hudson River tunnel is planned to run about a decade from now. But crews are busy building structures and clearing the way for the ...

In the early decades of the 19th century, London was facing a major problem. The city had become the world's busiest port, but in order to transport goods from the docks to the heavily-populated ...

The Hudson Tunnel Project is marking another major milestone as it nears a critical point in the $16 billion process. During its Aug. 20 board meeting, Gateway Development Commission announced that ...

The world’s largest-diameter shield tunneling machine passes the 10,000-meter mark, setting a major milestone in underground ...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. — Project leaders with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel reported that Chessie, the tunnel boring machine used to dig the second tunnel, had broken through at the second island.

There’s no tunnel boring machine, like Bertha, which is digging a new Highway 99. “We don’t have Bertha going through here so we dig it out by hand, more or less. That’s not really true but it’s a ...

In a move that will surprise no one who is familiar with the antics of Elon Musk, Musks's tunnel-digging-and-transportation-system company The Boring Company has wired its tunnel digging machines to a ...