Moving fibre trunks: interruptions?

Sat Sep 2 18:38:04 UTC 2017

On 2017-09-01 18:38, Ricky Beam wrote:

> Buried stuff requires a great deal of planning, permitting, and insurance. 

Are cables in railway right of way considered "burried stuff" from the
point of view of all the regulatory approvals since it is on private
land (railway's) ?

I take it that it is the railway which burries a new cable in its
ballast (since it knows where other cables are burried, has to handle
cable crossing its bridges etc)?

In the specific case of Turcot in Montréal, the government was in charge
of cleaning the land, removing any obstructions (such as a major sewer
collector which had to be moved) etc, and even drained and compressed
the ground before handing it over to CN to build its tracks.  So CN got
a clean slate, ready to lay tarp, ballast and tracks (and later string
fibre).

(ironically, that land used to belong to CN and was the Turcot rail yards).