Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first ...

HAMPTON, Va. — On April 17, Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine emerged through the headwall at the Hampton end of the HRBT. Exactly six months later, she's starting her next journey: creating the twin ...

Often described as "steel dragons," tunnel boring machines, or TBMs, are colossal pieces of equipment essential for digging underground passages. Unlike machinery operating above ground, TBMs work in ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Now that the anchor’s away, expansion work at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is back at full bore. Burrowing of a new tunnel to help carry more vehicles between Virginia Beach and ...

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 ...

Mary, the tunnel-boring machine, is on the move again! Thursday, Mary began boring a twin eastbound tunnel in part with the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project. Watch: First of 4 gantries ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The huge boring tool affectionately known as 'Chessie is once again digging through the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. "So think about a four-story building as long as a football ...

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 ...

Work to start digging a new Hudson Tunnel is set to begin this spring as two tunnel boring machines custom-built for the project are on their way to New Jersey. The new rail tunnel, called the Gateway ...

Students across our state will have a chance to name the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. Next summer, the machine will begin work underneath downtown Seattle making way for the viaduct ...

Chinese engineers have managed to turn disaster into a masterful engineering feat by rescuing ...

Seven months after beginning its journey, Elaine the tunnel boring machine has completed its subterranean mission drilling out the Northside Interceptor Tunnel (NSIT). The 16.5-foot diameter, ...