Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Looks like it!
-------- Original message --------From: Tim Pozar <pozar () lns com> Date: 7/14/18  11:46 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Andy 
Ringsmuth <Andy () newslink com>, North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: (perhaps 
off topic, but) Microwave Towers 
Did it follow this route?

http://long-lines.net/places-routes/maps/MW6003.jpg

Tim

On 7/14/18 8:41 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> > On Jul 14, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian () ampr org> wrote:
> >
> > > > I find myself driving down Route 66.  On our way through Arizona, I was surprised by what look like a lot of 
> > > > old-style microwave links.  They pretty much follow the East-West rail line - where I'd expect there's a lot of 
> > > > fiber buried.
> >
> > Could they be a legacy of the Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications,
> > now known under the acronym SPRINT?
> >      - Brian
>
> Not along Route 66 in Arizona. That generally parallels BNSF Railway, formerly the Santa Fe down there. Southern 
> Pacific followed Interstate 10 much further south.
>
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