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, October 31, 2018

NS/Conrail Pittsburgh Line Changes

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Well the great PRR Main Line re-signaling project has commenced with CP-HARRIS to CP-CANNON having already been changed and more segments sc...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Buffalo Line: Gone But Not Forgotten

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As of a year ago, the former PRR Buffalo Line, running between Harrisburg and Buffalo, was a real oasis of vintage PRR signaling with positi...
Monday, October 15, 2018

The Sounds of Non-PRR Signaling

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So I was about to post a second volume of PRR Signaling Sounds to highlight the importance of preserving both audio and visual history, but ...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Former Conrail Territory News

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Over the last couple of weeks I have taken two trips to the PRR Main Line in Central and Western PA and have also gotten some other NS signa...
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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...
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