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, June 30, 2014

Capitol Limited Trip Report

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I had so much news from my recent cross country trip I had to split it into two pieces.  This will cover my various trips around Chicago as ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

California Zephyr: Then and Now

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Two weeks ago I took Amtrak's California Zephyr from San Francisco to Chicago, IL recreating a trip I had taken in 2012.  Then as now I ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Non-Trip Related News

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Well I am back from my 4th annual Amtrak Cross Country trip and while I was planning on a trip report to detail all the great signaling that...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Lightweight Cab Signaling Resiliency

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The more we seek to use "high tech" signaling methods like coded track circuits or communications based train control, the more we...
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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...
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