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, June 21, 2012

'C' is for Stop and Check

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Some may make fun of the "diversity" of North American signal rules, but they do make for interesting explanations. Today's p...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

RIP ALTO: 1915 - 2012

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Not sure what else needs to be said.  As expected the Railroaders museum will get a chance to preserve it, but is will not be in situ so the...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Updates: BNSF and D&H, Bad News All Around

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Leading off, if you remember a few days ago I posted that Canadian Pacific had abandoned its policy of replacing old three head searchlight...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Odd Stuff at Night

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I wanted to quickly take the time to show some really fascinating signal related photos I came upon in the last few weeks.  The first was ta...
Friday, June 1, 2012

CSX Chicago Line Resignaling

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If obtained some more information on CSX's resignaling plans on the former Conrail Chicago Line in upstate New York.  In the east CSX i...
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...
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