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A 700-ton German machine that reads the ground ahead and changes its own tools on the move is why New York just broke ground on a subway a century in the making, built so it can't jam the way Seattle's Bertha did for two years
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (1123+ words) Ask a New Yorker about the Second Avenue Subway and you’ll usually get a laugh. The city first drew it up in the 1920s. It spent the next hundred years getting proposed, funded, shelved, and proposed again, and only opened its…...
Four boring machines 498 feet long each will dig New York's new rail tunnel in two pairs with different cutterheads, because a machine built for 35,000-psi volcanic rock is the wrong tool for the saturated mud waiting on the Manhattan side
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (1405+ words) Digging a rail tunnel under a river sounds like a water problem. It mostly isn’t. The machines run well below the riverbed, and the water stays where it is as long as the ground in between holds its shape. On…...
Dubai just started casting the 25,000 concrete rings for a tunnel nobody has begun digging, 100 million pounds stacking up in a yard — the machine that installs them digs and lines at the same time, steered from a control room 8,000 miles away in Texas
1+ week, 2+ day ago (951+ words) The Boring Company has spent five years running Teslas through tunnels under Las Vegas, and the polite knock on the whole operation is that it never grew much past a convention center shuttle. Clark County has approved 68 miles of tunnel…...
A 1,680-ton German boring machine with a cutterhead over 28 feet across is being bolted together in a New Jersey trench to chew through rock so abrasive its cutters wear out every two days, on a route where 40 people work inside the machine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1402+ words) If you have ever taken an Amtrak or NJ Transit train into Penn Station from the Jersey side, you rode through one of two single-track tubes that opened in 1910. Amtrak has said that closing one of them for a year…...
New York just switched on the longest fully buried power line in North America, two grapefruit-thick cables hauling Canadian hydropower 339 miles under Lake Champlain, the Hudson and city streets — up to 20% of New York City's electricity, and you could stand right on top and never know
2+ week, 3+ day ago (803+ words) Getting a new power line built in America usually means a decade of lawsuits, town halls and redrawn maps before anyone pours concrete. Overhead towers are the classic fight: everybody wants the electricity, nobody wants the view. New York just…...