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, November 27, 2016

See Hamilton!

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No, I'm not talking about the hit Broadway musical about the guy on the $10 bill (although you should see that as well), I'm talking...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

More R&N Updates

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Thanks to one of my Northeastern Pennsylvania contributors, I have another batch of Reading and Northern signaling updates for everyone. Th...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Amtrak 2016 Autumn Express Trip Report

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A couple weeks ago I rode Amtrak's  2016 Autumn Express which ran in a loop from New York to Harrisburg and back via the Lehigh Valley -...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Election Night Coverage!

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Ha, fooled you!  I didn't say exactly what I was going to cover on this night before the election and as you may not have guessed (for o...
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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...
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