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 ...

Mary’s job is done. On Wednesday, the tunnel-boring machine known as Mary, responsible for digging the two new tunnels for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion, completed the second and final leg ...

Here's how the tunnel boring machine, or TBM, works: As the 200-ton TBM moves forward, a round cutter head studded with titanium teeth grinds into the tunnel face and splits large chunks off the rock.

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 ...

Doubts about funding have been overcome and tunnelling work has begun.

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 ...

Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first mile of the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel through the rocky Palisades.