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.

Saturday, May 31, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - COLA Interlocking and Tower

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Seeing as how COLA Tower and its interlocking, located in Columbia, PA , was the focal point of a wide area CTC project running from the pre...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

CSX Ripping it up All Over

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I haven't had a news post in a while and when I went to check that I had saved up I noticed that almost all of it was CSX related becaus...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Fire! Fire! Help Me! SS28, New Haven Line

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Usually when fire comes up in the context of railroad signaling it;s usually some old wooden interlocking tower or relay plant making use of...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

PHOTOS: NA "TOWER"

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In the Year 2000 there were still two great railroad main lines controlled in the traditional method with regularly spaced interlocking towe...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Better Know a Signaling System - METRA

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METRA is the Chicago area commuter rail umbrella organization that supplies equipment and funding to various contract railroads such as Uni...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - SHOCKS to COLA

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After the short detour up the Royalton Branch it is once again time to get back on the Enola Branch as we continue on towards Columbia, PA a...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Caught on Camera - Episode 2 Google Special

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having a railfan catch a rare signaling situation on camera, but having one be captured by a civilian on a completely unrelated mission is a...
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