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.

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Historic PT&T (New York Penn and Sunnyside Yard) Video Tours

›
I recently stumbled upon a YouTube channel run by an old Amtrak conductor who posted a number of video narrations of various parts of the ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Here Comes the Harrisburg Line CTC Project

›
Well NS just cut in the CTC on the former Conrail Reading Line, however the original "Reading Line" was the Reading railroad Main ...
1 comment:
Monday, March 19, 2018

NS Reading Line 261 Finally Cut In

›
Wow, so it took nearly 2 years, but the short, 30 mile long NS Reading Line has finally been "upgraded" to bi-directional Rule 261...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Book Review: GRS - Elements of Railway Signaling

›
So it's come to this.  I'm so desperate for filler content that I've taken a page from the Forgotten Weapons playbook and starte...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Northern Buffalo Line Trip Report

›
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

›
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

›
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 ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Jersey Mike
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.