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.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How to Patch Your Signaling System (in 3D)

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In this week's installment I will travel to Georgia to highlight an interesting development on the CSX Abbeville Subdivision that I dis...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

According to the Timetable - METRA Beverly Branch

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While Timetable and Train Order operation isn't quite dead yet , the "timetable" part of it almost certainly is, even on the...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Another Signaling News Roundup

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Time for another post grouping all of the recent signaling news.  As always CSX is re-signaling something and this season their cancer has s...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Mystery Searchlights Revealed

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Last August I reported on a strange type of searchlight signal being installed by Canadian Pacific.  Canadian Railroads had, until recently...
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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) ...
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