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, September 28, 2014

No Joy in Signalville

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This month's news post is going to be another of the all bad variety.  It seems that the worst effect of the Midwestern oil boom is that...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wrong Railing Across the Pond

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How many Full Time Employees does it take to run a train against the flow of traffic on a section of double track manual block signaled trac...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - CRESS to HARBOR

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It's no secret that the PRR was never a huge fan of CTC thanks to their abundance of multi-track main lines and manned interlocking towe...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

TWC/ABS on the California Coast Line

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So here is a little video example of how signaling works on a North American line with both Automatic Block and Track Warrant control.  O...
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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