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, August 31, 2016

Additional News Items

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I was so pumped with LENOX tower escaping to live another couple years that I forgot to post the rest of the news items that I had accumulat...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

LENOX Tower Gets Reprieve, PRR Main Line :-\

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So I just heard that the State of Illinois did not get a TIGER grant earmarked for the replacement of the LENOX tower complex between Alton ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Better Know a Signaling System: BNSF Combined Signals

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In 1996 the Burlington Northern Railway merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe .  Typically when two railroads are involved in a meg...
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

A Stingy Man's CTC

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I'm talked before about various "poor man's" signaling.  Well I don't think anyone could accuse the great Pennsylvania...
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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...
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