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.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

PHOTOS: CPL Theatre - VINE and LOCUST

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Well once again it is time to turn some hum drum interlocking photos into some sort of cohesive narrative on signaling. In today's inst...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

An Interlocking By Any Other Name

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If there is one thing that can be considered constant in the world of railroad signaling, apart from mileposts that is, it would be interloc...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

CALUMET Tower Closes and Other News

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Well this one certainly came in under my radar, but CALUMET tower located on the Indiana Harbour Belt where it crosses the CSX (BO&CT) ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

PHOTOS: METRA BLUE ISLAND TOWER

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When one hears the name BLUE ISLAND in a Railroading context one is most likely to think about truss bridges, a 7 track grade crossing, 4 di...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

PHOTOS: A Brief Ride Through DOLTON JUNCTION

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For those of you who don't know, Dolton Junction is North America's largest operating mechanical lever frame interlocking tower loca...
Monday, February 18, 2013

CORK Tower Closes: 1929-2013

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At 10am on Tuesday February 19th, 2013 Amtrak's CORK Tower in Lancaster, PA will was planned to close for good and when it does finally...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

PHOTOS: CPL Recycling at Landenburg Junction

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Once upon a time in North America railroads were either seriously strapped for cash or railroad signaling hardware was abnormally expensive,...
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