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.

Monday, November 27, 2017

Lower Port Road Re-Signaling

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Starting in 2009, NS began to re-signal the western (northern) Port Road .  This started with the former COLA tower CTC area and proceeded s...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Queens Boulevard Towers, Still Hanging On

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Just a quick status update from the Queens Boulevard Line in NYC.  As I previously reported , the NYCTA was closing towers along the line as...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

DOCK Tower Closes (1937-2017)

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Well it looks like the Duke Nukem Forever of re-signaling projects has finally run its course.  While The venerable DOCK tower may have been...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Site Update / Service Disruption

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So I wanted to do a quick post about the state of the blog.  You may have noticed that a lot of the links and photos (at least more than usu...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Toronto Scott Street GRS 5B Machine Video

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A local Toronto newspaper posted a neat tour of SCOTT ST interlocking tower and its 1930's vintage GRS 5B Machine.  The 5B's were th...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

HAMILTON Closes and Other Bad News

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I just learned from a contributor that the famed B&O CPLs at HAMILTON interlocking in Hamilton, OH were cut over this past weekend.  One...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

METRA Cab Ride Videos Courtesy METRA

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The METRA commuter rail network has been seeing a lot of re-signaling as of late, but there is still a lot of interesting stuff out there li...
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