Re:Making tunnels the way you make spaceships
by Animats on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:19PM
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Tunnel construction track usually isn't powered. Tunnel construction locomotives are usually battery powered.[1] The Channel Tunnel did use overhead wire during construction, but that was an unusually long tunnel with no intermediate access points.[2]
[1] http://www.zslocomotive.com/locomotive/ [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Channel_Tunnel_const...