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.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Updates!

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Alright, I have an fairly major update of my METRA BLUE ISLAND Tower page to announce.  I had an opportunity to visit Blue Island in Decem...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Caught on Camera - Episode 8: Chinese Cab

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I noticed this photo taken inside the cab of a Chinese HXD1C electric locomotive and immediately a number of interesting tidbits caught my ...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Spring Newsbreak

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I collected a number of additional news items over the last few weeks.  First and foremost, it appears that we might have a new contender fo...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Russell's Teapot

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If I were to tell you that on the hundreds of miles of former C&O trackage between Cincinnati, OH and Norfolk, VA there is still an isla...
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...
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