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Re: RAIN 6/11: Norfolk Southern Corp fiber optics settlement



Interesting but not entirely true -- that NS Corp is the first railroad
company to use its railroad trackbed as a fiber optic cable route.

It may not have been the first either, but 'way back in the early 1980's,
the former Southern Pacific Transportation Company trenched much of its main
line trackage throughout the west and southwest for the laying of Sprint
long-distance telephone fiber optic cables; Sprint was originally a
subsidiary of SPCo, hence the use of the first two initials "s" and "p." At
the same time, the railroads upgrade their own (non-satellite/non-microwave)
telecommunications and train signalling system lines.

Major railroads around the country have been following suit for years.

Kevin V. Bunker
Student Assistant
California State Archives

> ----------
> From:         Kurilecz, Peter[SMTP:peter.kurilecz@WOODSIDESUMMITGROUP.COM]
> Reply To:     Kurilecz, Peter
> Sent:         Monday, June 11, 2001 5:52 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      RAIN 6/11: Reagan papers, invisible ink, poor record-keeping
>
>
        <big snip>

> Toledo Blade 6/8/01
> High tech lines buried along railroad may net landowners a bundle
> http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010608&Ka
> te
> gori=BUSINESS03&Lopenr=106080032&Ref=AR
>
> by Jane Schmucker
> Several thousand area landowners are to share in more than $1 million from
> a
> class-action settlement compensating them for installation of fiber optic
> lines on railroad right-of-ways.
> The settlement - which could be as high as $6 million locally - is the
> largest ever involving fiber optic installation on right-of-way land. It
> is
> the first ever on active railroad right-of-ways, according to lawyers
> representing the landowners against a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Corp.
>
        <vast snip>

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