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

Rosie, the tunnel boring machine named after Akron's own Rosie the Riveter, has a sister coming to town later this year, and her name is Elaine. Named after environmental advocate Elaine Marsh, Elaine ...

The race to save 41 construction workers trapped in a tunnel in northern India has hit yet another setback as the drilling machine rescuers have been using has broken down and cannot be repaired – ...

The Hudson Tunnel Project reached a key milestone as factory testing finished for two tunnel boring machines now headed to New Jersey.

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble Shoal Channel at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Monday, the CBBT ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the 1990s, one of the primary aqueducts that delivers water to New York City sprung a leak. It was a pretty bad leak, evidently, as ever since then, some 35 million gallons of water have ...

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 ...

Victorian government experts have confirmed that the tunnel boring machines are a “factor” in a sinkhole opening up in the ...

Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) achieved a key milestone in its Phase 2 expansion with the successful breakthrough ...

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers in December that he was sick of traffic and planning to build a tunnel-boring machine to “just start digging,” most thought it was a joke. Musk ...