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Fiber for Breakfast with Gary Bolton discusses Union Pacific: pain point disclosed

Source

Fiber for Breakfast with Gary BoltonJul 22, 2026

Fiber for Breakfast with Gary Bolton

FFB Episode 288: Right of Way Wars: Winning the Fiber Deployment Battle

What was said

if you're at 15 feet below a Union Pacific Railroad track, they require track monitoring. which is where you have to put tags on the railroad tracks and you have to have a professional surveyor come out it's about a twenty thousand dollar expense to do track monitoring.

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Quotes from the episode

  • “if you're at 15 feet below a Union Pacific Railroad track, they require track monitoring. which is where you have to put tags on the railroad tracks and you have to have a professional surveyor come out it's about a twenty thousand dollar expense to do track monitoring.”

    Dave ThomasFiber for Breakfast with Gary BoltonView

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Signal
Pain point disclosed

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Podcast
Fiber for Breakfast with Gary Bolton
Speaker
Dave Thomas
Speaker role
Third party
Event date
Jul 2026

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  • Dave ThomasSpeaker (third party)

Details

Timing
Ongoing state
Recorded at estimate
2026-07

Extraction

Detected
Aug 24, 2026
signal_type
podcast-company
signal_subtype
painPointDisclosed

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