Some questions answered on the old NH.

[NYC_George]

Today on the first tee I was telling some of my retired railroad friends, I hope I can swing today I fell down the 12ft berm on the old NH line the other day while taken some photos. Gordon a railroad friend said I worked on that project. So I said, you laid the new signal wire and installed the new ties on some of the bridges. He said that’s not a signal wire, it’s a fiber optic line that is used as a backup to tie in the Hudson, Harlem and NH in case of a power loss or accident that may damage the train control and other data on the three lines. It can now be rerouted across the lines down to Grand Central. The line was laid by a wire plow pulled by 2 engines. As the engines moved along at 1 mile per hour the ground is plowed up and the line is laid in place. The line is then covered up by a back hoe on a flat car. The old ties were replaced on some of the bridges because the line is now used to move maintenance of way vehicles only. This east to west line makes it much easier for the M of W to move across the three lines that run north to south. It saves an unbelievable amount of time with out any interference to other trains and they do the moving in the middle of the night.

NYC_George

 

[UP2CSX]

That makes sense, George. Lots of railroads use fiber optics for their own communications as well as ground leases for other company's fiber optic lines. I wondered what that white conduit was on the one girder bridge but now I see it's for the fiber optic line. I hope your golf game didn't suffer too bad from the tumble but at least you had a good excuse if it did.

 

[NYC_George]

A hard berm

Jim I was sore from the fall and forgot to take some ibuprofen before I left for the course, more brain lock. Played really bad but at lease I now know why it looked like something had passed over the line recently. I guess the chain link fence I viewed from the road that day must have been a gate to stop snowmobiles from traveling over the track in the winter.

NYC_George