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, November 25, 2012

Coming to the Port Road: Rule 562 Operation

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At the end of October Norfolk Southern filed a motion with the FRA to remove the wayside automatic block signals on the entirety of the Por...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

CSX Resignaling Accelerates

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I have two new CSX re-signaling alerts and the first has some potentially unfortunate implications for the River Line, but that remains to b...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Life and Life and Death of G Cabin

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The former C&O Railroad's G Cabin Gordonsville, VA has been a well known railroad attraction for years.  Constructed in the 1930...
Friday, November 9, 2012

NS Wasting Money Again

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There are many reasons to replace signal equipment.  They can use complex or conflicting aspect systems like position lights or those wacky ...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

NS CP-CANNON Railfan Hotspot Elimination

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In a move that I can only rationalize as an attempt by NS to eliminate railfan hotspots, the eastbound position light masts at CP-CANNON on...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Extinct: The US&S MT Switch Machine

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Over a year ago when I posted about the demise of E 180TH ST interlocking and tower on the New York City Subway system I was unaware that w...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

PHOTOS: METRA TOWER A-2 (Western Ave) Part 2 - Inside

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So back in Part 1 we explored the history behind TOWER A-2 and the layout of the interlocking plant.  Here in Part 2 we will venture inside...
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