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, September 29, 2018

Central Buffalo Line Re-Signaling Due Soon

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If you wanted a photo of the unique compact PRR position lights at CP-NORRY or just some run of the mill pics of the "downtown" PL...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

For Good Signaling References Try Google Books

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While doing some research I was reminded that a lot of really informative books and technical journals are fully indexed and available free ...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

NS Harrisburg Terminal Re-Signaled

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So it appears that my prediction from two weeks ago was exactly flip-flopped.  Despite the 5-track signal bridge for CP-HARRISBURG remaining...
Friday, September 7, 2018

1960's British Branch Line Cab Ride Films

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So while this is a rail signaling blog and not a railfan video blog, sometime I like to highlight sets of videos that really show off the si...
Friday, August 31, 2018

NS Pittsburgh Line Cut Over This Weekend?

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The scuttlebutt is that NS will be cutting over the new signaling and attendant Rule 562 operation on the Pittsburgh Line between Harrisburg...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Mark D Bej's The Broad Way Archive Gone

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It seems that I'm not the only person running into a hosting jam lately.  For literally the last 20 years when I have needed information...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

New NORAC Signal Rules!

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Yes, and before people get all nit picky yes NORAC is indeed adopting both new rules and a couple new aspects that go along with old rules. ...
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