[39715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update: CSX train derailment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Fri Jul 20 22:17:24 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On 20 Jul 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
> The Baltimore Sun has a graphic showing the re-routed fiber optic
> line.
>
> http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-traingridlockmap.graphic
There's an archived story about the history of the tunnel:
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-traintunnel.story
This is an interesting note for those wondering how the cables were
physically snapped:
"The tunnel also has a second use. An MCI fiber-optic cable trunk line
suspended on the tunnel's west wall carries thousands of long-distance
phone calls."
It seems less than a derailment could cause some damage... I assume(???)
that it's in heavy conduit of some sort, but it seems even some
maintenance or other activities could snag something and cause a similar
outage...
Charles
