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.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

British Power Signal Box Video Tours

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On a British signaling forum I frequent, a signaler known as Ian Ives uploaded a number of VHS video tours he made of some London area Briti...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Last Stand at MEXICO

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With the demise of the stretch of B&O CPL signaling between GREENS SPRING and PATERSON CREEK, MEXICO and WEST HUMP interlockings in th...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

RIP Toledo Towers

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2015 had not been a good year for out of service interlocking towers on the former Toledo Terminal railroad with three having demolished in ...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Post-Thanksgiving News

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Tis the season for signaling (or re -signaling) news.  I first have something to report from a recent Chicago trip in that the large search-...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Another Icon Falls, Spite Free

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I am sad to report that the famous 89 intermediate signal on the former Conrail Fort Wayne line between Pittsburgh and Leetsdale has been ...
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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