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

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, ...

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

Fourteen stories beneath the median on Park Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets lies one of the gargantuan machines that dug the tunnels for the East Side Access – the project to bring the Long ...

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 ...

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The City of Vancouver has completed a small-scale tunnel boring project to build a new sewer main under a public park.