Boring Company Delivers Tunneling Machine to San Antonio
The Prufrock-5 tunnel boring machine will build a weatherproof route through Morgan's Wonderland, a theme park in San Antonio, Texas.
Updated on Nov. 6, 2026 in Theme Parks
The Boring Company has delivered a tunnel boring machine named Prufrock-5 to Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, Texas. The 900,000-pound machine will bore a 0.8-mile tunnel within the park's Inclusion Campus.
Why it matters
The tunnel is intended to let visitors move more easily throughout the campus in all weather. The project is funded privately at an estimated cost of $1.4 million.
Prufrock-5 weighs 900,000 pounds and will bore a tunnel 0.8 miles long with a 13.5-foot outer diameter. The estimated cost is $1.4 million, and final permit approvals have not yet been confirmed.
The players
The Boring Company
The Boring Company is a tunneling firm founded by Elon Musk that builds tunnel boring machines and transportation tunnels.
Morgan's Wonderland
Morgan's Wonderland is an accessible theme park in San Antonio, Texas, opened in 2010 to let children with and without disabilities play together.
Gordon V. Hartman
Gordon V. Hartman is a San Antonio developer who built Morgan's Wonderland and named it after his daughter Morgan.
The details
Prufrock-5 will bore the tunnel to create a weatherproof mode of transportation within Morgan's Wonderland. The Texas Department of Licensing and Registration lists the work as beginning November 11 and wrapping up the following November.
Timeline
Morgan's Wonderland opened in 2010.
Gordon V. Hartman sold his homebuilding business in 2005.
Tunneling work is expected to begin November 11.
Tunneling work is expected to wrap up next November.
Industry Dynamics
This project extends The Boring Company's tunneling work beyond the Las Vegas Loop transit tunnels into a private theme park campus. It shows the firm applying its tunnel boring machines to smaller, localized weatherproof routes.
Visitors to Morgan's Wonderland may see construction activity during the tunneling period, which is expected to run from November 11 through next November. Park guests should plan routes around work zones while the weatherproof passage is built.
The takeaway
A weatherproof passage can make a theme park campus easier to navigate in every season. Visitors planning a trip to Morgan's Wonderland should check the park's schedule for construction-related route changes during the tunneling period.
What happens next
Tunneling work is expected to begin November 11 after final permit approvals, and to wrap up the following November.
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Equipment World.
