The Position Light

A blog devoted to explaining the ins and outs of North American railroad signaling, past, present and future. This blog seeks to preserve through photo documentation the great diversity and technical ingenuity of 20th century signaling and interlocking hardware and technology. Related topics cover interlocking towers and railroad communications infrastructure.

Note, due to a web hosting failure some of the photos and links may be unavailable.

Friday, May 16, 2025

No Approach! The Duality of Uncommon Signals

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We all learn about traffic lights in elementary school.  Red means stop, green means go and yellow means slow or caution. These are the basi...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Enthusiasts Step Up

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Unlike Europe, Heritage railroads in the United States never developed a vintage signaling component beyond what one might describe as displ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

New Signals Up At THORN

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 Although not much has changed regarding the ultimate fate of THORN tower, recent photos do show what the new signaling situation is going t...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

NECR / Central Vermont Changes You May Have Missed

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While I have been posting much about the loss of former Boston and Maine searchlight signaling on the New Englande Centrale, a couple of oth...
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Saturday, April 12, 2025

CSX Continues to Attack the Big Four

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Turns out that the River Line isn't the only part of Conrail territory currently under attack by CSX signaling crews as I just saw that ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Mr. Beast Fakes the Trolley Problem

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For those of you who don't know, " Mr. Beast " is one of the most popular figures on YouTube mostly appealing to 11-14 year ol...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Guilford Country Resignaling Updates

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With the re-signaling of the former Guilford Rail System/Boston & Maine Western Route Main Line accelerating rapidly, I managed to carry...
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