Chessie, a tunnel-boring machine, has completed her work on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel's new Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel. The machine removed 500,000 cubic yards of soil, and installed ...

There is a picture of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on the cover of "The Way It Is," the first album by Bruce Hornsby and The Range. Following its opening in 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was ...

There is a picture of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel on the cover of "The Way It Is," the first album by Bruce Hornsby and The Range. Following its opening in 1964, the Bridge-Tunnel was ...

After beginning her mining endeavor way back in February 2023 beneath the Thimble Shoal Channel, 'Chessie' has now completed her epic journey for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. And you can watch ...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. — Project leaders with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel reported that Chessie, the tunnel boring machine used to dig the second tunnel, had broken through at the second island.

the tunnel boring machine nicknamed “Chessie” has fully completed its task of excavating what is planned to become a new expanse of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT). Chessie broke ...

Chessie has been a mining workhorse for Bay Bridge Tunnel project Chessie, the newly named tunnel boring machine for the Thimble Shoal Parallel Tunnel project on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel ...