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, May 31, 2016

PTC Updates

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Because Amtrak had enabled the ACSES PTC system for all of its trains operating on the NEC and Harrisburg line and SEPTA is running its ACSE...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Fairwell Fairfield Cantilever

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Well it's not down yet, but the on again/off again replacement of B&O CPLs between Cincinatti and Hamilton, OH is on again as eviden...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Bracketology

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The bracket mast is another one of those signaling items that appear in North America, but few other places.  While similar to the British s...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Curtain Closes on the B&O

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Before I get to the rest of the news it is my sad duty to report that the last B&O CPLs on the Capitol Limited route at MEXICO and WEST ...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Chicago 75th Street, Western Ave and MO Videos

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Not sure how I missed these gems.  Both of these videos have been on Youtube for a number of months and I am just getting to them now. The f...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Commonwealth Signaling Diagrams

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Found two interesting websites with some top notch non-North American signaling diagrams.  The first is called SA Track and Signal and feat...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Bad Signaling at Bad Aibling

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The Bad Aibling rail accident was a head on rail collision that took place on February 9th, 2016 on a single track portion of railroad near...
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