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, March 31, 2015

Caught on Camera - Episode 6: That Lowest Head

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It is already challenging to catch interesting signal indications lit up in the wild, but indications featuring the third, or lowest head on...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

F Tower to "Close", Times Square Tower to Move

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So about a month ago I reported that CSX was studying closing the famed F Tower, in Fostoria, Ohio .  Last week the word came down that the ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

New Links!

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Found a couple of signal related links I thought I'd share.  The first is the website of a rail photographer you might recognize from ra...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

RONDOUT Tower Closing and Other News

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Well I have the sad duty to report that RONDOUT Tower in Rondout, IL will be closing on March 7th, 2015.  This tower was a former Milwauk...
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...
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