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.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

C&O In Trouble at Montgomery, WV

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With CSX running roughshod on the old C&O multi track mainline west of Charleston and Huntington for years the eastern bulwark was the i...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

NYC 5-Track Gantry to Fall at NASBY

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The great 5-track New York Central signal gantry just west of Toledo at NASBY tower (currently known as CP-292 since the tower closed in 19...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

PHOTOS: ALTO TOWER

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Seeing as how my 2009 PRR Main Line Survey has reached the Golden City of the PRR I thought it appropriate to reach back into my archives a...

Bellevue, Ohio Re-Signaling

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Apparently NS isn't just out to ruin the spiritual heart of the PRR, but has also decided to go after their Nickel Plate Road heritage ...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Re-Signaling at CP-308

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While the former New York Central Main Line has been an absolute sanctuary for signaling compared with the other eastern routes, it cannot b...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

ALTO Tower to Close :-(

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I guess I'm a little behind in the news, but as you might guess I don't try to seek this information out as it will only serve to de...
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PRR Main Line Survey 2009 Part 6 (CP-LONG to CP-WORKS)

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Picking back up at CP-LONG just west of Lewistown you can follow along on the track diagram here Also if anyone is interested in the of...
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