Allied Fiber Begins Building National Dark Fiber Ring > Looks like

reply to cooldude9919

Re: Looks like

Agreed, I have seen train derailments dig down 8' before, that would take out almost any buried fiber. Also, true diversity for something like this, would require the fiber paths to be much further apart than a few dozen feet. Also, a crew boring across some tracks that hit the cable on one side, could just as easily hit another cable buried on the other.

Those things on the railroad right-of-way is quite common anyway. I work in the signals department for CSX and you cant put in a new crossing on any line without fiber or in some instances gas lines running along the tracks. Another run of fiber on most rail lines wont make a bit of difference, after all the railroad does make money off the leases in the process.