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.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

UD Tower, Fixture of Joliet, Closes

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It looks like after a lull the pace of tower closures is really picking up.  This time the famous UD Tower in Joliet, IL has closed in antic...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

BO Tower Downgraded

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I just learned that last September BO Tower in Kalamazoo, MI decommissioned it's 1915 vintage mechanical lever frame in conjunction wit...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Amtrak's K Tower Threatened

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No, the tower isn't closing, but if a developer gets his way Washington DC's iconic K Tower and the entire terminal throat might be...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Lotsa News

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With all the recent tower closings I have fallen way behind on more mundane forms of news.  Most of these are in the form of general re-sign...
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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...
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