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.

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Protecting Sharp Curves Before PTC

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Located at Milepost 90.3 on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel route is a wonderfully analog system to help prevent inattentive train crews...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Position Lights Replaced at QUEENS Interlocking

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 In 2005 the future looked somewhat bright at QUEENS Interlocking. Although the US&S Model 14 interlocking machine has been taken out of...
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Friday, July 31, 2026

Reading and Northern's Flexible CTC

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From loose car switching to running coal fired steam excursions at main line track speeds, the Reading and Northern has a thing those trad...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Automatic Signals To Be Axed From NY Penn Station Lines 1 and 2

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Amtrak is currently halfway through a project to rehabilitate its East River Tunnels that were damaged during Hurricane Sandy way back in 20...
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Sunday, July 12, 2026

Decoding Transit Signal Labels

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 As I have been covering for some time, North American railroad interlocking stations are generally well labeled. However rail transit is qu...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Caught on Camera: Clear to Next Interlocking for UP #4014

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For much of the  Union Pacific Big Boy  2026 Coast to Coast excursion tour, #4014 was able to operate like any other Class 1 main line locom...
Monday, June 29, 2026

LIRR Greenport PTC - Much Ado About Nothing

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We have another data point regarding the FRA's PTC paranoia, this time regarding the Long Island Rail Road's Greenport Branch waiver...
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