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.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - JEB Interlocking

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While not technically on the Port Road / Enola Branch between Perryville, MD and Enola, PA, JEB interlocking is located on what is now know...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Falling Signals and a Possible New Tower

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It's news time again and I have a mix of good and bad news this time, which I guess is better than just all bad news.  First up the CSX ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Better Know a Signaling System - Southern

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The Southern Serves the South and today it is serving my need for a blog post.The Southern is interesting as it is the most Western of the ...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Caught on Camera - Episode 1

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I'm starting a new semi-recurring topic called "Caught on Camera" where I will highlight interesting signal indication not nor...
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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...
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