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.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Hall Disc (aka Banjo) Signals Explained

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If a book on North American signaling has a chapter before semaphores that covers stuff like, flag signals, ball signals and tilting target...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Grand Central Terminal Interlocking Charts

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It is often quite difficult to find good technical information on New York City region rail infrastructure due to a combination of security ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Throw Away Society

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So NS is slowly re-signaling it's former N&W lines in Virginia and West Virginia, that's not anything new.  What is interesting ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Round Searchlight in an Oval Hole

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Everybody knows that part of what makes a searchlight signal a searchlight signal is the round backing.  Be it the large target variety that...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Autumn News Highlites

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Time for another update on the places you need to go out and get your signal photos now.  First up is Birmingham, AL, and I don't mean a...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Caught on Camera - Episode 7: Restricting

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Ah Restricting, not the rarest of signal indications, but definitely special in certain circumstances, especially in the now vanishing insta...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Failed a Spot Check

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Was out on the Queens Boulevard Line this weekend, trying to document the surviving interlocking towers that are visible from the ends of th...
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