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, July 30, 2015

NS PRR Signaling Updates

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I was hoping to get some more Port Road Trips out this week, but I've been swamped so I had to settle for some news updates, specificall...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Zombie Apocalypse - HAROLD Tower Closes For Good (Or Not)

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EDIT: My source was mistaken and HAROLD tower is NOT being demolished (at least not yet).  It's still an interesting story of HAROLD liv...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Full Up - Signals that Like to Show it All

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Signal engineers and signal departments aren't stupid.  If a signal doesn't need to display certain signal aspects then typically th...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

ATSF Amarillo Dispatch Office 1985

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I recently found this wonderful little video on Youtube that offers a rare glimpse of a CTC office in the brief period between the advent o...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Better Know a Signaling System: PRR

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Not really sure what more I have to say about the Pennsylvania Railroad position light signaling system.  It is the name of the blog and wha...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Catch Them While You Can- SEPTA and LIRR Projects

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Yeah it's another news related post since I don't have the time right now for anything longer.  Today I wanted to throw out a little...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

What's Up with the Reading and Northern?

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The Reading and Northern has been a rare bright spot in the world of signaling.  A commitment to its Reading heritage has resulted in numero...
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