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.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Exactly What It Says on the Tin

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Here is one resignaled interlocking I really can't complain about.  Truth in advertising.
Sunday, January 18, 2015

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - MIDWAY to PILOT

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 Well it's been a while since my last installment of Port Road Trips, but I was holding off in order to grab one last set of updated pho...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Bonus PHOTOS: Amtrak HARRISON ST Tower

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So a few weeks ago I talked about Amtrak LAKE ST tower at Chicago Union Station and how it served as the control center for almost the enti...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Updates!

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I made some minor updates to two articles.  First I added a pair of new photos to the page on Conrail's Virtual Headed Dwarfs , one of w...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Year End News

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Well 2014 has come to an end so let's stuff in one last news update with things I became aware of over the holiday break. First up in ...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

North American Signaling Jargon

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 Over the years I have come across many interesting terms and expressions related to railroad signaling and railroad signaling control and I...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

PHOTOS: Amtrak LAKE ST Tower

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It's been a while, but it is finally time to conclude my METRA Tower series by looking at a tower that wasn't METRA's at all, bu...
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