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, September 7, 2015

Better Know a Signaling System: Amtrak "CPLs"

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I know what some of you are thinking.  Isn't Amtrak part of NORAC and aren't those colorized position lights part of their signaling...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

More Canadian Pacific Signal Recycling

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You might remember a few years ago where I posted about the strange mystery searchlights being installed by Canadian Pacific.  They appeare...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Random News

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It's been pretty quiet lately so here are the few bits and pieces of signaling news that came to my attention. First, I think I covere...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Addington Signalbox Closes

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More news from the land down below down under.  On August 1, 2015 the last manned signal box (aka interlocking tower) on the southern island...
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

PHOTOS: Port Road Trips - WEST ROCK to TOME

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 Sorry for the delay in getting the last few segments of Port Road Trips out.  I figured since I was so closed to the end there was no real ...
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...
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