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At last, successful tunnel boring under Manhattan

The Robbins Company, 1983

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METRO DI NEW YORK

How did the TBM excavate under Manhattan to bore the tunnels to create Line 131 of the NY metro?
In this 1983 film also created with the very first computer graphic computer software, we are able to discover a piece of infrastructure history.

Video duration:: 13:44

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