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Comment: I just drove through the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 in Colorado. I
heard a rumor that when they were building the tunnel a boring machine went off cpourse, got stuck and they couldn't get it out. So they they just buried it and left it under/beside the tunnel inside the mountain. I couldn't find anything about this. Is it true? |
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I'd say fake. Those machines don't run like cartoon moles, they are slow, very slow, and the alignment is constantly checked. It would have been stopped before it even got a few centimeters off course. Also, those machines are extremely expensive, so you don't just bury it if it would somehow get stuck, you disassemble it and remove it piece by piece if you have to.
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I don't know about this specific case, but isn't it standard for one boring machine to be sacrificed when two meet in the middle.
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Yeah the boring ones always get left behind. *Remembers his teenage years and shudders*
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Hopefully after a Thunderdome style deathmatch?
"Two borers enter! One borer leaves! Two borers enter! One borer leaves!" |
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Apparently they leave borers in the NYC subway after work is completed.
http://www.mta.info/news/stories/?story=320 |
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It's my understanding that those boring machines are constructed for each specific task, so there's no point in retrieving one when the job's done. But I could be wrong.
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They are not suitable for another project, but they can be sold for scrap. If the cost of retrieving them from the tunnel exceeds the expected return on scrapping them then it makes sense to abandon them. I'm sure that varies depending on the project.
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It's not uncommon to bury a TBM or at least just it cutter heads, but there is nothing to indicate that it was done for the Eisenhower tunnel.
Besides, you couldn't just start over again unless you came from the other direction and then the story would be that they buried two TBMs, since you wouldn't be able to get the second one out either. http://illumin.usc.edu/printer/172/a...in-and-france/ Quote:
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I think we must be thinking of different machines. The ones I've seen are huge beasts, cutting the entire width of the tunnel in one go. I'm sure they are not left behind.
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The UK based Tunnel Boring Machines digging the channel tunnel were driven into the ground and left, the French ones were extracted.
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