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

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 ...

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has completed the drilling of the first two deposition holes at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel repository near Olkiluoto using a new ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Boring Company started exploratory drilling across Nashville for the Music City Loop project. In early October, the company began “geotechnical exploratory borings” in ...

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Already having tackled electric vehicles, space flight, and high-speed vacuum tubes, benevolent mad scientist Elon Musk’s latest foray into transportation infrastructure is ready to get off the ground ...

LAS VEGAS – Elon Musk’s Boring Company will begin drilling an underground tunnel on Friday, Nov. 15, for the Las Vegas Convention Center’s forthcoming people mover. To officially kick off the ...

A county environmental regulator has fined Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, nearly $500,000 after the company dumped “drilling fluids” into manholes around Las Vegas, which led to ...

Elon Musk announced on Friday that drilling on the first Boring Company tunnel was complete, and shared footage of the enormous drill emerging at the bottom of a huge pit. Musk has previously said the ...

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