Federal rail officials have been talking with The Boring Co., Elon Musk’s tunneling company in Bastrop, about an ambitious project to replace an aging Amtrak tunnel in the Northeast.

The Boring Company is headquartered in Bastrop, Texas, and has previously marketed itself as an innovator in low-cost, high-speed tunneling. Amtrak announced in 2024 that construction on the ...

The $41.1 million Tonnelle Avenue project included relocating utilities and building an overpass to allow the trains to pass underneath Tonnelle.

As Musk winds down at DOGE, he returns to a business empire flush with opportunities and fewer investigations—but new ...

The public feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is putting billions of dollars and thousands of ...

The project, which Amtrak has called its “single largest infrastructure effort,” has struggled with missed deadlines and ballooning costs. The Boring Company, which is competing with other firms for ...

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Amtrak's Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program is modernizing and transforming a 10-mile section of the Northeast Corridor.

Today, against the urgent pleas of New York leaders across the political spectrum, from Gov. Hochul to Mayor Adams to Nassau ...

Five Amtrak employees recently admitted to participating in a health care fraud scheme to defraud the rail company of millions of dollars. Each defendant received thousands of dollars in cash ...