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, February 20, 2026

Caught on Camera: PORTAL's new "Gantrylever" Under Test

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Following up on the previous post regarding the new PORTAL bridge cutover, Amtrak I happened to catch a cab speed indication on the (New) PO...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Amtrak PORTAL Bridge Re-Labeling

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The requirements of safety and signaling made railroads some of the first organizations to manage systems of unique identifiers and all thei...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Policy Capture Ruins SEPTA's Suburban Trolleys

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One reason often overlooked reason CBTC is problematic is that it provides management, lawyers and politicians the ability to reach forward ...
Friday, January 30, 2026

PATCO CENTER Tower Moves To The Pherphery

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 As the prototype for the "modern" heavy rail rapid transit system, Philadelphia's PATCO (Port Authority Transit Corporation) ...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

L&W PRR Pedestal Signals Appear on the LIRR.

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With cast iron PRR type "pedestal" position light signals from US&S long out of production, SEPTA appeared to be the first to ...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Conrail Signs on the D&H

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One of the few interesting things NS still does from a signal perspective is show respect for its former Southern and Conrail territories th...
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...
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