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, June 30, 2018

UPDATE: ALTO Tower Page Hi-Res Photos

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So I took the time to re-process the photos from my 2004 trip to ALTO tower that formed the core of my 2011 blog post about the tower and it...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Atlanta Terminal South Tower Demolished

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One of the few bits of railroad history left in downtown Atlanta was torn down last week when wrecking crews came for the former Southern Ra...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Railroad Signals and the Materials of Yesteryear

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NOTE:  This article first appeared in the Summer 2017 issue of The Trackside Photographer . In 1967 young people were told that plastics ...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Caught on Camera: Bobbing SEPTA Main Line Signals

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Several years ago I discussed the topic of relay logic and how it can create interesting signal displays as they change from one aspect to ...
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Sunday, May 27, 2018

A Few Bits of News

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I haven't had much to report on lately, but I did save up a few random news items, some good, some bad.  On the good side of things I fi...
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

LIRR Reduced Aspect Signals

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Well it looks like the LIRR has decided to jump into the same pool as Metro-North and SEPTA by adopting a Go, No-Go signal system in conjunc...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

All Askew - Remaining Users of Offset Auto Signals

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Back in the day, setting the heads of a multi-headed signal on opposite sides of the mast was an effective way as marking a signal as an aut...
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