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Mile and a half tunnels takes a long time. >> this is a linear project. you must do the tunnels before you do this. >> and highly specialized laborers are the ones doing nat. sand hogs or earning miners work alongside operating engineers who drive and maintain the machi machinery. >> on average we pay about $1,000 a day. thats base salary plus benefits. >> reporter: its putting people to work in a tough economy. they expect phase one of the subway, three and a half stops and a new tunnel at a fo...

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>> reporter: these are urban minors. when you think about construction labors, at a house or building being build, these h-r sand hogs. these guys often go hundreds of feet below the surface of new york city to build the steam tunnels, the water and sewer pipes and the train tunnels for the east side access project which happens to be the largest transportation project in the united states. we went below ground with the sand hogs this week and met one of them, mike warfield and asked him how he ...

Americas largest transportation construction project is going on here in new york city about it many all invisible. men and women are working 15 stories below one of the most densely packed urban areas on earth. they are nicknamed the sand hogs and they are building tunnels for a new train line. nice hard hat, rick. what do you know about the project? >> reporter: i was told i have to wear this. or i cant stay here anymore. if you are tired of all this fresh air and sunshine and you want to go d...

Know it was there unless you went looking for it. sand hogs are chiseling out the future of transportation in the city that just never sleeps. rick leventhal is working 9 to 5 in new york today, and there he is. hey, rick. >> reporter: jenna, sand hogs dug the footings for the brooklyn bridge 140 years ago, and theyve dug the footings for almost every other bridge in new york since then, and every single tunnel beneath our feet -- and believe me, there are a lot of them including the east side a...