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.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Akron Signal Island Sinking Fast

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The island of B&O CPL signaling in the Akron, OH area is shrinking rapidly as the iconic downtown double-double CPLs have some unwanted ...
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Monday, February 20, 2017

Amtrak Empire Corridor Status Report

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Just came back from my annual trip on Amtrak's Empire corridor and I wanted to give everyone a report on the state of the signaling as v...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Gosts of Winslow Junction

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The following originally appeared in The Trackside Photographer in June of 2016 and was based on a trip I took on Black Friday 2015.  I...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

NS Windup Signals Winding Down

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So I was out this weekend documenting some locations on the former N&W H-Line in West Virginia and I saw an intermediate signal being re...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

To Float or Not to Float

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I wanted to discuss a topic I have mentioned multiple times in other posts, but never really addressed head on.  This is the distinction bet...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

Raising a Toast in DC's Last Towers?

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I recently came upon some information regarding the possible fates of Washington DC's two remaining interlocking towers.  These are the ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

New Year's News

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Things have been pretty quiet as of late, but I did manage to tease out a few news items of note over the holiday season.  Starting off wi...
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