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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Better Know a Signaling System - Seaboard

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Well last time around we explored the signaling system that ate the Northeast.  Now we can explore the signaling system that is eating the s...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - HARBOR to MIDWAY

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It's time to close out the month of October with another installment of Port Road Trips.  This time we are leaving the A&S and Safe ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Thurmond Signals Fall

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I guess it is no surprise that CSX is not above ruining a Nationally Registered Historic Place.  I've been waiting for the re-signaling ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Know Your Current Class 1 Standard Signals

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It's not really in dispute that North American railroad signaling is currently suffering from a lack of diversity.  However with all the...
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Caught on Camera - Episode 4: Relay Logic

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Today I have a few photos taken in that brief period of time when the relays are still fluttering about and signals, at least the old school...
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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...
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