Feasibility study for fiber optic route between Massachusetts and Ohio mainly using roadway ROWs. Includes route maps and ROW lists with mileage, locations and owners; correspondence and memoranda concerning route planning, ROW acquisition and construction permission. 93-13 Number 62.

Correspondence concerning construction of aerial cable route using utility poles and ROWs belonging to New Jersey Bell and Atlantic Electric. Includes applications for 'road opening' construction permits and performance bond; route map showing utility routes; Atlantic County Highway Improvement Program report. 93-13 Number 62.

Correspondence, route planning and permit applications for fiber optic route across New Jersey. Includes periodic status reports on permit application process in various state agencies and townships; reports of meetings and correspondence with the State Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] for passage of cable through State Forest property in the New Jersey Pine Barrens and other wetland areas; memoranda and correspondence concerning acquisition of alternate routes after adverse decisions by the DEP, using State highway and Turnpike Authority ROWs; route maps and pole diagrams; status report of Philadelphia-Tuckerton cable project. 98-13 Number 62.

Correspondence concerning maintenance of road surface over cable installation; notes on road opening permitting procedures in Atlantic County. 98-13 Number 98.

Correspondence and memoranda concerning negotiations for leases and locations for repeater stations and aerials for construction of the IBM Fiberlink System. 98-13 Number 98.

CPARs, equipment and labor expenditure ledgers and memoranda related to the construction of the New York-New Haven portion of MCI's New York-Boston fiber optic route, and for spur routes to White Plains and Rye Brook, NY. Also includes route plans and status reports. 98-13 Number 98.

Statement of work, site plans and route maps for repeater sites along MCI's North Royalton-Waynesville route, using railroad ROWs. Includes diagrams of equipment shelters. 98-13 Number 97.

Memoranda and correspondence concerning construction of sections of proposed long-haul fiber optic route between Illinois and Texas, mostly using Union Pacific Railroad Company ROWs. Includes CPAR for project to install Longview-Little Rock, AS section of fiber route, with technical description, labor and equipment costs; route schematics; licensing and permit issues; notes on project management meetings, field engineering reports; correspondence concerning ROW and easement issues, including regional reports on ROW acquisition; Statement of Work for route survey and design, permitting and engineering services; route survey status reports; correspondence with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with list of waterways to be crossed by the cable route; engineering studies for design and installation of river crossings for cable routes. 52 photographic prints of river crossings, including rail bridges, have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections Department. 98-13 Number 124.

Reports and memoranda concerning project to increase capacity along the southern section of MCI's Houston-Irving fiber optic backbone. Includes budget and appropriations reports; costs summaries for equipment and labor; route maps; field engineering reports. 98-13 Number 124.

Outside plant engineering and construction cost estimates for sections of fiber optic route through Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee. Includes material quantities and costs; task descriptions, quantities and labor costs per state; estimates for schedule and time frame. 98-13 Number 124.

Correspondence, memoranda and field engineering reports related to installation of cable interconnections between MCI and Wiltel using Mountain Bell fiber optics. Includes testing and maintenance document with specifications for terminal configuration, equipment lists, and test procedures; correspondence concerning scheduling and inventory acquisition problems. 98-13 Number 66.

Correspondence concerning route and ROW acquisition from CSX Railroad, the City of Richmond, and Appalachian Power Company, to provide fiber optic spur to Home Shopping Network facilities. 98-13 Number 98.

Final installation memorandum for interconnection of MCI and Pacific Bell facilities. Includes trouble log. 98-13 Number 66.