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.

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Fire at VALLEY JCT Tower

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The Reading Company's late LEBANON VALLEY JCT interlocking tower was built in 1951 with CTC and direct wire control over most of the Rea...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Amtrak Extends NEC Rule 562 From OAK to BUSH

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Amtrak has recently activated Rule 562 cab signal operation between OAK and BUSH interlockings on the Aberdeen peninsula in Maryland retirin...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

PHOTOS: LEAMAN - The Place To Be

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line, today operated by Amtrak as their Harrisburg Line, is known for its many interlocking towers that survi...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Caught on Camera - NORAC's Missing Signal Aspect

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If you are looking at older versions of the NORAC signal aspect chart you might notice something a bit odd. Most of the common signals indic...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - East-West Terminal Railroads

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In my previous articles about railroad station signs , I covered passenger and freight railroads in the "east" and "west...
Monday, December 1, 2025

CSX Signal Rules Go Canadian

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In September of 2024 CSX added two new signal rules to its rulebooks, Limited Approach Limited and Limited Approach Medium , and examples o...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

The Other Rule G

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The evolution from "Stop and Proceed" to "Restricted Proceed" in North America is long and something I hope to tackle at...
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