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.

Friday, January 31, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - WAGO To SHOCKS

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This installment of Port Road Trips is going to be a short one between it includes only the two intermediate signal locations between WAGO i...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Samsung Model 14

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When dealing with 80-year old technology sometimes it might not be practical to make alterations using the same methods great grandfather wo...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Call it the "Ohio CPL" and Petone Update

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I believe I have mentioned this before but CSX is taking the "Baltimore" out of B&O CPL in its latest re-signaling project tha...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

North American Signaling Dialects

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Signal aspect systems are a lot like languages.  Many times they basically saying the same thing, but as you move around from place to place...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Heya Toots! - The Story of the Interlocking Horn

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Anyone who has spent time in towers or gotten up close looks at CTC consoles or video displays may have noticed the presence of buttons (or ...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

PHOTOS Port Road Trips - WAGO Interlocking

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In our third episode of Port Road Trips we will examine the Conrail era WAGO interlocking which replaced the older CLY interlocking as the ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

DIY Interlocking Machine

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I tend to prefer my interlocking towers and interlocking machines "in the wild" that means in service on a real railroad and not ...
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