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.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

PRR Main Line Survey 2009 Part 8 (CP-UN to CP-C)

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Well we have reached the summit of the PRR at Gallitzin and it is time to coast down the West Slope. While not as dramatic as the East Slop...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

PHOTOS: METRA 67TH ST TOWER

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Last May Metra closed the last interlocking tower on its Electric Division running south out of Chicago. This was the former Illinois Cent...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Clear Sweep on the Port Road

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For the last few years NS has been "cleaning up" most of the PRR heritage on the Port Road.  Having already eliminated the old PRR...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

PRR Main Line Survey 2009 Part 7 (ALTO to CP-UN)

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In this Part 7 of my 2009 PRR Main Line Survey I will cover the segment between ALTO and CP-UN.  Now while I did devote an entire special po...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Cardinal Dome Car and JC Cabin

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First a small bit of good news.  Amtrak is now attaching its great dome car to the Cardinal in the later half of the fall foliage season aft...
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 ...
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