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 train order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label train order. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Data Infrastructure Increasingly Substitutes for Radio Comms

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I have been reading reports that as PTC systems are being certified for operation, their data transmission facilities are being used to tran...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wrong Railing Across the Pond

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How many Full Time Employees does it take to run a train against the flow of traffic on a section of double track manual block signaled trac...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

TWC/ABS on the California Coast Line

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So here is a little video example of how signaling works on a North American line with both Automatic Block and Track Warrant control.  O...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

According to the Timetable - METRA Beverly Branch

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While Timetable and Train Order operation isn't quite dead yet , the "timetable" part of it almost certainly is, even on the...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Rumors of Train Orders' Demise are Greatly Exaggerated

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Last week it was reported that the Long Island Rail Road had "retired" its Train Order system inherited from the old PRR Standard ...
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