Bertha, the world’s biggest tunnel boring machine, is expected to dock in

Bertha, the world’s biggest tunnel boring machine, is expected to dock in Seattle sometime tomorrow. It should be quite a sight.

Named after Seattle’s first and only female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, the 6,700-ton behemoth left Osaka, Japan, on March 19 aboard the 469-foot long jumbo ship Fairpartner. Once the old girl makes her much-anticipated arrival at Terminal 46, crews will reassemble its 41 parts, including the 57.5-foot wide rotary cutting head, in a 400-foot long, 80-foot deep pit , just east of the terminal.

The Daily Weekly will update this post with a more precise time of arrival as soon as the information becomes available, and will be on scene to bring you all the sights and sounds of Bertha’s landing.

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Bertha roars into action this summer on the $2 billion, four-lane tunnel to South Lake Union.