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, February 28, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - SHOCKS Interlocking

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Next stop on the Enola Branch is SHOCKS interlocking , named after the nearby Shock Mill Bridge .  SHOCKS is a major junction in the former...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Conrail's Virtual Headed Dwarfs

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The concept of a signal "head" is pretty basic to the understanding of signal aspects.  Each head is capable of displaying some ch...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Better Know a Signaling System - Delaware and Hudson

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Here in the inaugural episode of Better Know a Signaling System I am starting with something small to just sort of see how things go.  Actua...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

What's Old is Old Again

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Yup, its time for another news post and this time I will be showing some examples of old things that are being discarded and old things that...
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...
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