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, February 24, 2015

PHOTOS: LEAMAN - The Place To Be

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How much kit can a Temporary Block Station (TBS) have and still be considered temporary?  I'll admit that's a bit of a bun question ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

CSX Considers Closing F Tower?

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Finally I get to report some news that isn't 6 months old.  Someone linked me an actual print media article about a CSX plan to study i...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

HN Tower - A Look Back

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For those of you who have been here since the beginning, tower closing announcements have become a bit rarer.  This is less because fewer to...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Garden Variety Bad News

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Very rare to see any good signaling news these days, but nothing really stands out as particularly bad.  We begin with a few bits left over ...
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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