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 30, 2011

It Keeps Getting Worse, HULL N&W CPLs to Fall

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Signaling news this year has been an absolute disaster and it's not over yet.  This time one or both of the three track N&W signal b...

NASBY Re-Signaling Update

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It appears that whatever NS has planned will involve a new interlocking at MP 293 taking the place of the NYC/Conrail style automatics near ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

No Surprises on the Cumberland Sub

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Well it took less than a year after CSX replaced the CPLs on the Magnolia Cutoff for them to return and finish the job between Orleans Road ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

C&O Resignaling Marching Up The New River Sub

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If you are looking to take an Amtrak trip I might recommend taking advantage of the dome car when it appears on the Cardinal in a week or tw...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

PHOTOS: METRA 16TH ST CROSSING

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Known as 16th St Junction or 16th St Crossing, the complex flat junction just south of Chicago's famous loop is the survivor of what us...
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...
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