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, April 25, 2017

Swindon Power Signalbox Restoration

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Hopefully most of you are familiar with the excellent job the crew at HARRIS tower has done reactivating its US&S Model 14 interlocking ...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

The Many Signals of Penn Station

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In the first decade of the 20th Central, a number of transit mega-projects were under way in the United States.  Two of the most well known ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

CP-BURN'd

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So I have a brief news update here.  While riding the 2016 Amtrak Autumn Express I noticed that NS had advanced their Reading Line re-signal...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Now For Something Completely The Same (#1AESS Retirement)

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I just got word that on or about right now, the last active AT&T/Western Electric #1AESS telephone switches (generally confined to the ...
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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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