Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble ...

The $80 million tunneling machine known as ‘Bertha’ resumed mining Tuesday beneath the Seattle waterfront for the first time in about seven weeks. The machine moved forward about two feet, allowing ...

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 ...

Contractors working for the state of Washington are planning a high-stakes operation to rescue Bertha — the world's largest tunneling machine. Bertha is supposed to be boring a 2-mile highway tunnel ...

The 271.5-tonne machine, named Caroline, has been launched for the Grain to Tilbury project by Michael Shanks. The project will construct a 2.2 km tunnel linking Essex and Kent, helping to modernise ...

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 ...

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 ...

The five-story-tall tunneling machine that will bore a hole from SODO to Queen Anne for the new SR 99 tunnel now has a name: Bertha. The Washington State Department of Transportation launched a ...

Bertha may be sitting idle, but another boring machine in Seattle, Swizy, is ready to move. “We are replacing the (Fremont) pipeline that has been in use for about 100 years,” said Annie Kolb-Nelson ...

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 ...

Fascinating footage shows a huge tunneling machine called Dorothy digging underneath ancient woodland as the United Kingdom's HS2 high-speed rail project goes full-steam ahead. Dorothy, the ...