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, March 29, 2017

Ditmars Tower (NYCS) Demolished

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Interlocking towers serving old school rapid transit systems have surprising staying power.  In most cases they are often in underground spa...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Caught on Camera: Sun Glare

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Sun glare is traditionally the enemy of color light signaling.  For years it has been the go to excuse for stop signal violations and one of...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Springtime for News

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We start off this time with another gut punch to the signaling scene.  The NS re-signaling effort is not attacking the PC era position light...
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Monday, March 6, 2017

LAB Cabin Closes, Ending Many Eras

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While this may sound like a bit of a rehash of my recent post on the status of signaling in and around Amtrak's Empire Corridor, some ad...
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...
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