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.

Showing posts with label grade crossing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grade crossing. Show all posts
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Caught on Camera: Mendon, MO Level Crossing

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 One side effect of taking photos from the back of long distance Amtrak trains is that from time to time you get a good shot of what might e...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

What's Up With RTD and Caltrain's Grade Crossings?

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Ever since the Denver RTD A Line opened in 2016, it's been plagued by strange grade crossing issues that eventually resulted in human c...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

The Final* Wig Wag

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In March of 2021 the final active Wig Wag style grade crossing warning device on a North American main line railroad was retired from servi...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Where Old Signals Go to Live On

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When railroads retire signals they are typically thrown in the scrap heap, sold off to railfans or sent down to the C&S shoppe to keep a...
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