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.

Monday, May 28, 2012

More NS Signal Recycling

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I found a couple more examples of NS's more liberal policy of reusing older signaling hardware instead of just replacing it at the drop ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

PRR Main Line Survey 2010 Part 13 (PAOLI to PENN)

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In Part 11 we left off at PAOLI interlocking at the beginning of what is known as the Philadelphia Main Line which is a string of extremely...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Now That's More Like It!

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While the overall outlook for classic signaling is just this side of dismal, there are a few slight rays of hope.  One of these was recently...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Game Over, Just Pack It In

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Despite all the bad signal news those tho appreciate classic signaling could always count on the fact that classic signals were still being ...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Looks Like Someone Retired on the Old D&H

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 Until now the former D&H division of Canadian Pacific that runs from Montreal to Scranton clearly had a few old hands buzzing about in ...
Friday, April 20, 2012

CSX Mohawk Rampgae

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While the bracket replacement out west of buffalo might be a necessary piecemeal replacement, what is going on in the Mohawk valley is much ...
Monday, April 9, 2012

CSX Bracket Buster

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In today's news we find CSX getting ready to tear down the former New York Central bracket masts at MP 94 (West) on the Chicago Line.  T...
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