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, October 5, 2025

Dispatcher Signal Stacking

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The story of railway signaling, like many others, has been one of technology increasing human productivity. Power operation allowed "le...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Amtrak's Secaucus High Density Cab Signaling in Action

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When the Secaucus transfer was being designed and built around the year 2000, Amtrak implemented a new "High Density Cab Signaling...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

NAN Drawbridge: A Crazy Thing We Lost

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While this is ostensibly a blog about railroad signaling, I'll sometimes cover related bits of historic technology like railroad telecom...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

MBTA's Everything's Alright Signal

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Those who find themselves looking down the MBTA Red Line's distinctive open span subway tunnels might be forgiven if they sometimes thin...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

LINCOLN Lefty: Story of the PRR's Left Handed Dwarfs

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 Anyone looking at the NORAC signal aspect charts may have noticed that the familiar PRR dwarf position lights have a curve to them (or yaw)...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Amtrak's New Position Light Configuration

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Following from Pennsylvania railroad practices, Amtrak used the following two configurations for all of its "complete" position co...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Overland Route Elephant Ear Replacement

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Despite its status as an evil empire, Union Pacific has a surprising amount of legacy signaling on its premier transcontinental route betwee...
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