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, January 28, 2013

You Gotta Be Kidding me - Chicago Lake St Tower Demolished

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Saw this heartwrenching photo last week of a backhoe ripping down the 80+ year old Lake Street tower at the north end of the Chicago Union S...
Monday, January 21, 2013

B&O CPLs: Gotta Catch 'Em All

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This past year saw the destruction of my beloved Huntington Ave interlocking by CSX C&S forces as they needlessly re-signaled a 261/CTC ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

PHOTOS: METRA TOWER A-5 (Pacific Junction)

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While I have now covered most of the major METRA operated interlocking towers in the Chicago Area in my ongoing web series there are still ...
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

End of the Main Line

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It appears that NS wasn't finished when it applied to the FRA to remove the wayside block signals on the Port Road between PERRY and STE...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Signaling News Update

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Well its time again for some signaling updates and like usual its all bad news.  First of all at CARROLL interlocking the only complete B...
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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...
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