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, July 30, 2013

PHOTOS: ZOO Interlocking Part 1 - The New K

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For those of you who didn't know, the famous ZOO Tower (with its formerly 230 lever Model-14 power frame) is is in the news again with ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

PHOTOS: LIRR VALLEY Interlocking and Tower

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VALLEY interlocking in Valley Stream, NY on the Long Island Rail Road (of iced tea fame) is one of the more important and visible towers...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

CP Searchlight Mystery Continued

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I got some interesting feedback on my post regarding the strange new type of searchlight signal that is now being installed on select new i...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

+1 Active Towers: CSX St Joseph's River Bridge

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It's always nice when I "discover" a new active interlocking tower and unlike the last time it is still in service, although ...
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  First up the N&W colorized position lights at Marion, OH have finally been replaced by ...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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