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, November 30, 2014

Harrisburg Line Trip Report

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Over the weekend of November 8-9 Amtrak ran its fall Foliage Train on a round trip over the NS Harrisburg Line from Philadelphia to Harrisbu...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Where Old Signals Go to Live On

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When railroads retire signals they are typically thrown in the scrap heap, sold off to railfans or sent down to the C&S shoppe to keep a...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

CTA Mini-Towers

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The Chicago Transit Authority has remained a strong supporter of the "tower" system of rail transportation control.  Just like the...
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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