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, September 30, 2013

CSX: Where TWC and DTC Collide

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Like most North American Class 1 railroads CSX is an amalgamation of various predecessors. Not only are there the Seaboard and Chessie Syst...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

NS and CSX Tear It Up in the South

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Time for another bit of the News.  This time I have a number of reports from NS and CSX operations in the south and east.  Starting in the N...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - STELL

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 This will be the first of a series of posts on the former PRR Port Road and Enola Branch.  Through my own efforts and the efforts of a frie...
Monday, September 2, 2013

PHOTOS: CPL Theatre - DORSEY and JESSUP

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How does one operate a commuter rail service on a busy freight main line without resorting to exclusive use windows that drive freight rail...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

WALTHAM Tower: 1928-2013

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Well this one snuck past me.  WALTHAM tower , which was creeping toward closure with a general resignaling project on the MTBA Fitchburg Lin...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Feathering a Signal

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I was down by Maryland's Bush river recently trying to snag some photos of the rather rare drawbridge opening there when I noticed somet...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Once Again its Time for the News

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This week we begin with the CSX Philly Sub resignaling project, which completed phase 1 over the last several weeks for both interlockings a...
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