music city loop x archive 

Welcome to the Music City Loop X Archive!

The Music City Loop team has made significant progress in a short period of time. As part of The Boring Company's commitment to transparency, project updates have been shared throughout the journey on X, providing a real-time look at development, construction, community engagement, and major project milestones.

Explore the Nashville-related X posts below and see how Music City Loop has evolved from its initial announcement to active tunneling beneath Nashville.

More Machines and Milestones

Prufrock-MB2 is ready to mine in Nashville! 

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Tunneling in 3 geologies in 3 cities - Las Vegas clay/caliche, Nashville limestone, and Bastrop sandy clay

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Thanks to @GovBillLee for the time and the insight.

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The first residential Music City Loop station agreement, serving those living at the beautiful Prime, Alcove, and Paramount towers in downtown Nashville

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Prufrock-MB2 has arrived in Nashville

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The Music City Convention Center Authority in downtown Nashville has unanimously (8-0) approved the Music City Loop tunnel easement.

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The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority has unanimously (7-0) approved a Music City Loop connection/station.

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Prufrock-MB1 has shipped from Bastrop to Nashville in November and Prufrock-MB2 ships in January. 

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Tunneling Underway

The long journey of rock in Nashville

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The view of the rock directly in front of Prufrock-MB1 in Nashville.

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Elon - “Boring Away” (Tunneling on a Sunday in Nashville)

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Team photo inside the tunnel - Nashville has great rock!

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Tennesseans in Las Vegas in March, ride the Vegas Loop for FREE.

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Elon - “Much tunneling” (Tunneling in 3 states today - Nevada, Texas and Tennessee)

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Tunneling has begun in Nashville - we are 2.5 feet in!

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Diligence and Building the Team

Nashville, we're hiring!

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Elon - “Join tunneling – the underground movement”

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Grateful and excited to receive the @myTDOT permit to begin construction on Music City Loop!

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Hiring event in Nashville! Looking for engineers, operations leaders, electricians, welders and mechanics in Nashville.

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Prufrock-MB1 is ready to mine in Nashville!

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The Vertical Cassette and Belt Bender, used for tunnel rock removal, are set up in Nashville!

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Final acceptance testing of TBC’s first hard-rock TBM before it ships to Nashville!

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Preparation for Music City Loop continues with controlled blasting to excavate the TBM launch shaft.

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Geotechnical exploratory borings near the beautiful Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

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Geotechnical exploratory borings in downtown Nashville are underway!

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A small exploratory pit to view/analyze the TBM launch site geology, and  to provide data for the designing the full tunnel alignment.

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Hiring the founding team for Music City Loop!

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The Announcement and Engagement

Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics Site Visit

https://x.com/adamatw/status

Hume-Fogg Site Visit

https://x.com/hfalibrary/status

Vanderbilt Basketball support!

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Tennessee Senator Jack Johnson Vegas Loop Visit!

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December 1 Blog Post!

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Hume-Fogg Site Visit

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Elon - “Long discussion about Boring Company progress”

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First Music City Loop Blog Post.

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Operation Stand Down Volunteering.

https://x.com/SERobinsonJr/status

August update from Music City Loop!

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Added an FAQ for Music City Loop.

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Great turnout for the first Hiring Event. 

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Secretary Sean Duffy - “Congratulations to @GovBillLee, the City of Nashville, and 

@boringcompany! The Music City Loop will usher in a golden age of transportation!”

https://x.com/SecDuffy/status

Speaker Cameron Sexton - “The @boringcompany’s tunnel project is a game-changer for how we travel and commute in our state. Honored to attend this major announcement for Tennessee! We are challenging the status quo and looking forward, not backwards.

https://x.com/CSexton25/status

Gov Bill Lee - “Introducing the Music City Loop — a transformative transit partnership between Tennessee & the @BoringCompany.”

https://x.com/GovBillLee/status

Announcing Music City Loop!  The Boring Company is coming to the State of Tennessee.

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