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, February 28, 2018

Northern Buffalo Line Trip Report

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So after reporting that the PRR signaling on the Northern NS/Conrail/PRR Buffalo Line was in danger, I took a trip up to the Williamsport, ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

NYCTA Union Turnpike Tower Closes and Warwick CPL's Fall

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Double shot of bad news today, although none of it was unexpected.  At 5am on Monday, February 20th, 2018, the UNION TURNPIKE tower on the N...
Monday, February 12, 2018

PTC Assimilates METRA Beverly and Fox Lake Branches

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PTC is in the news after that CSX wreck and it came to my attention that, as one might expect, METRA's solution to some of more oddball ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

First Confirmed PTC Casualties

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I have always maintained that PTC was going to kill people and not just in the sense that it makes rail transportation uncompetitive with hi...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Well Somehow I missed This Site

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Today I was made aware of a new interlocking tower related website, and by new I mean it was started around 2011, the same year I launched t...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Amtrak Signal Diagrams Courtesy the Feds

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So when Amtrak made regulatory filings to alter the signal system both on the Southern NEC and Springfield Line, it appears that they also s...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

NS/Conrail Buffalo Line Alert!

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Well things are going downhill fast on the northern portions of the former Conrail Buffalo Line.  About a decade ago, declining traffic on t...
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