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, June 29, 2013

The New Interlocking Towers?

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It is a bit ironic that the same automation technology that so utterly decimated traditional interlocking control systems now seems to be re...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Signaling Marches On

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I have a few more signaling updates to go over.  First up the N&W colorized position lights at Marion, OH have finally been replaced by ...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

PHOTOS: Brighton Park Crossing

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Brighton Park Crossing appears on collections of interlocking charts, but it isn't an interlocking. It appears on lists of Chicago Rail...
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Hancock Tower Inside Tour Re-posted

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One of the first posts in this blog featured the former CSX / B&O HANCOCK tower located in Hancock, WV.  I had taken a large number of i...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Know Your Cab Signal Displays!

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North America has two dominant cab signaling technologies and by two I mean one that is dominant and another one that is still used. The fi...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

CSX Philly Sub Resignaling and Other News

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Well since the CSX re-signaling crews of doom finished running roughshod over the B&O CPLs in Baltimore they have no moved northward ont...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

PHOTOS: Magnolia Cutoff Pole Line CPLs

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A summer before the major re-signaling project I took a road trip out along the B&O Main Line to see someone about a horse. On the way ...
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