The construction of the Hudson River Tunnel in New Jersey has resumed, with crews working on assembling the specialized machines necessary to dig the first stage of a pair of rail tunnels. The project's two massive tunnel-boring machines, manufactured in Germany and shipped to the Garden State as 96 separate pieces each, were still waiting for assembly when work on the project halted earlier this year due to funding interference from the federal government. The Trump administration was forced to resume funding the project. The machines are part of a $465 million contract awarded to Schiavone Dragados Lane Joint Venture. They are a far cry from the current methods used to construct the current rail tunnels that connect the Meadowlands to Penn Station, which rely on drills and explosives.