Met with the Sprint guy (they own the Fiber Optic, which apparently is the main line between Louisville and Lexington), and he located that for me. He told me the depth was 6' and a few inches under the railroad, which means it is a good 2 feet under my water line running through there. So all I am waiting on is the see if the railroad company will allow me to dig closer to the bed or if they are going to require me to apply to bore a new sleeve under the railbed. I am still considering trying to dig out the line on my property on both sides with a pretty good size hole and thread on new Sch 80 galvanized line and pulling it in as I pull out the old. Only thing I worry about with that is the old line breaking in half somewhere along the pull. I'll see what the railroad guy thinks of that when he gets here. He seemed pretty easy to work with. I did just fill out a contract to get a new water meter installed on this side of the track (they brought a new main a few years back just on the other side of the road from our property line, and the water is about 1/3 the price of the other meter!) and that should take 2 weeks at the longest to get a meter installed, plus inspection once I get the line run to where I'm tee-ing it in. This whole dealing with utilities and the railroad is enough to make a fulltime job out of. It still blows my mind that a railroad company comes in and leaves your land basically "locked" from all city utilities, and yet they expect a farmer to pay for a service to be brought under or over their railroad at their expense while they take home huge profits each year. Something just isn't right about that... I'll update when I meet with the railroad contact hopefully Thursday.
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