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, July 27, 2014

Bad News with What Could Have Been

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Almost all the new I post is of the 'bad" variety, but at the end of today's list I have two examples of the sorts of news we c...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Caught on Camera - Episode 3 Short Signal Distances

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Today on CoC I wanted to follow up to my recent piece on NORAC signaling by showing a few interesting photos of the effects of short signal ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Better Know a Signaling System - NORAC

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Ah NORAC, the "there's more than one way to do it" signaling system was created out of the smoking mass of bankrupt railroads ...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - COLA to CRESS

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For the last 4 installments of Port Road Trips we have been slowly making our way through COLA tower's CTC territory that stretched from...
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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 ...
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