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, February 29, 2016

Switch Position Indicators

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Switch Position Indicators are to railroad signals as Uber is to a taxi.  It serves basically the same purpose, but without the high cost an...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Newsruary

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Alright, let's see what's going on in 2016.  On the former NY Central main line the CSX re-signaling effort is reaching towards Buff...
Monday, February 15, 2016

PHOTOS: OVERBROOK Interlocking

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So it's been a while since we last visited the PRR Main Line and this time I have something special.  OVERBROOK interlocking, straddling...
Friday, February 12, 2016

No Clipping

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As the exciting future of solid state lighting increasingly becomes the present, some of you may have noticed that LED lamps are a bit more,...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Better Know a Signaling System: C&O Color Lights

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The Chesapeake and Ohio color light signal aspect set is the crazy uncle of eastern US speed signaling,  From a distance they look perfectly...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

New Year, New News

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It's a new year and I have some news items that have built up since the last installment.  Just FYI I am working on getting photos and v...
Monday, January 11, 2016

METRA TOWER A-5 (Pacific Jct) Closed

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Again this is a bit late, but I recently confirmed that METRA's famous Tower A-5 was closed, effective November, 17th, 2015.  This is t...
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