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How long have you been a Sandhog?  How did you get started? I started in Oct 1997, so I've been doing this for 11 Years. I grew up with a close friend whose father was the business agent of the union, Local 147, the greatest union in the world.

Tonight, the History Channel will air the first episode of Sandhogs (10 p.m.), its 11-episode series about the workers behind moving the city's big infrastructure projects, like Water Tunnel Number 3 and the 7 Subway Line Extension, along. (Last month, we got a sneak look at some images from the show.)

     

Starting this September the History Channel will be airing their new series, Sandhogs. The eleven episodes will focus on the people and the projects that maintain New York City's infrastructure, from the past to the present. They say, "For more than 150 years, a legendary band of mostly unknown urban miners has toiled in obscurity far below the streets of New York. They are the builders of water and sewage tunnels, subway systems and bridge footings, and underappreciated elements of the city's infrastructure."