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, August 15, 2025

Signals of the Reading and Northern Lehigh Line

›
Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley , today home to the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, was the West Texas or Saudi Arabia of the 19t...
4 comments:
Saturday, August 9, 2025

A Superb Web Resource for Railroad Defect Detectors

›
 It's not often that one gets a new web resource that isn't annoyingly flawed (yeah you Open Railway Map) or compromised by enshitif...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

View From the Head End

›
Recently a Youtube channel appeared called View From The Head End , that was posting complete head end cab videos from Amtrak trains. These ...
7 comments:
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Caltrain EMU Cab Video Signal Survey

›
After the loss of the Caltrain gallery car railfan window I wasn't holding out much hope for having anything worthwhile to do on the Cal...
4 comments:
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Inside the US&S A-5 Switch-Point Machine

›
This blog devotes a lot of coverage to the plight of the pneumatic switch-point machine and its long decline since its heyday between 1930 a...
Monday, June 30, 2025

MARION (AC) Tower's Missing CTC Machine

›
A couple years ago the folks at the Railroad Media Archive Youtube Channel posted a video covering the last months of Conrail's MARION...
1 comment:
Saturday, June 21, 2025

New Pittsburgh Line Interlockings

›
Norfolk Southern's ability to extort the state of Pennsylvania to add additional passenger frequencies on the old Pennsylvania Railroad ...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Jersey Mike
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.