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, October 31, 2016

BO Tower (1888-2016)

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Right as scheduled, BO Tower in Kalamazoo, MI , finally closed after a strange zombie period brought about by contractual obligation.  As fa...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Videos from Across the Pond

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I just found a few interesting videos involving UK signalboxes.  The first two involve the Banbury North Signalbox , which was recently deco...
Monday, October 17, 2016

STATE Tower Closes (1937-2016)

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This weekend the world lost not only an interlocking tower, not only a PRR Main Line interlocking tower, but a PRR Main L interlocking tower...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

PHOTOS: OVERBROOK Tower - Part 1

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So a while a go I posted a piece on Amtrak's OVERBROOK interlocking in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia.  Today I will be foc...
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

PTC and Stub End Terminals

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Despite what some on the news media are saying, the PTC mandate would have not stopped the recent overrun at Hoboken Terminal, nor was it ev...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

PRR Main Line Re-Signaling and Other News

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Well I can fully confirm that the much anticipated resignaling project on the former PRR Main Line (currently NS Pittsburgh Line) has begun....
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Conflicting Route Conundrum

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So the following photo drew a number of questions on both its own page and also a few of the signaling forums.  As one can see it appears t...
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