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.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Caught on Camera: Approach Restricting

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The Approach Restricting signal indication has a bit of a bad reputation in the land of speed signaling east of the Mississippi.  Typically,...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

ACSES PTC In Service Demo

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Today I hit the jackpot as part of a Philly area rail transit trip I help organize.  While riding a short turn on SEPTA's Fox Chase line...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Grinch Steals More Signals

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I first want to let everyone know that I now have confirmation that the NS PRR Main Line re-signaling program is not pausing at Lewistown, b...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

How to Ruin Your Signaling System (For Real)

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So I go on a lot about various signaling systems being "ruined" when reliable relays are replaced by hackable computer based logic...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Well, There's a New One

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Last week, while on a field trip to Chicago, I encountered a new Class 1 railroad signal indication I was hitherto unaware of.  Approaching ...
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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...
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