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, August 31, 2014

News from Coast to Coast

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Well I have just completed two Amtrak trips on both coasts and I have a few news items from both as well as the standard fare I have gleaned...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Metro North Resignaling Project Progress

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The Port Jervis Line   has been the bastard stepchild of the Metro-North Commuter Railroad since it was formed in 1983.  Formerly part of t...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

When is an ABS Signal not an ABS Signal?

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With railroad signaling I really do learn new things every day especially when I get off the beaten path and what's less beaten than the...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

PHOTOS: WB Tower

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CSX's WB (West Brunswick) tower in Brunswick, Maryland closed on December 9th, 2011 after a career spanning a full century of service o...
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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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