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, July 31, 2016

Hot Summer News

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It's been a pretty slow summer for new, but I have a few items built up I should probably get around to sharing. First up , the famous...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

It's the 80's! (Do a lot of coke and design a bad signal.)

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By the time the 1980's rolled around the dominant signaling providers in North America, US&S and GRS, were facing unanticipated com...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

CSX Philly Sub Re-Signaling Reaches Its End

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Since 2012, CSX has been slowly re-re-signaling the Philly Sub because it was...different?  You see much of the line between Baltimore and P...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Reading and Northern News

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Wow, I sure don't get to pose a positive news piece very often.  For some time now I have noticed that the Reading and Northern seemed ...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

The Trackside Photographer

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Just wanted to plug a new website/blog that's posting weekly railroad photo essays on the stuff that one typically finds on and around ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Sunset Limited Trip Report - Take II

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Sorry for th repetition, but as I explained in my 2015 Amtrak Cross-Country trip report , Dan Akroyd's private car was attached to the b...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Waste, Waste, Waste

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Quick news segment here today.  As always most of it is bad.  First up is the fate of the former ATSF HARBOR interlocking on the outskirts ...
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