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.

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Conemaugh Line Cab Signal Expansion

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In what could pass for a piece of positive signaling news these days, Norfolk Southern is actually expanding it's Cab Signal System terr...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

No More Lehigh Valley Signals on the Lehigh Line

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Just got back from a road trip and to my disappointment I discovered that the remaining Lehigh Valley RR signals had been removed from the l...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The Sounds of PRR Signaling

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This topic has come up a few times in other articles, but one of the neat things about non-solid state signaling technologies are the sounds...
Monday, December 11, 2017

A Great Early CTC Resource!

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As the few remaining stretches of classic CTC signal gets ground under in favor of lifeless Darth Vaders and wireless links, sometimes I fin...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Fall 2017 Reading and Northern Update

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So I just got another e-mail from Bill Tarantino in the year since his last update , the R&N has extended its CTC south from Tamaqua to...
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...
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