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.

Monday, November 26, 2018

Caught on Camera: Vanishing Towers

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While searching through the North American Interlockings website , I happened upon some Pittsburgh area towers with somewhat recent photos t...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Reading Line Runaway!

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So a few days ago there was a runaway incident on the NS Reading Line.  If you had seen some of my previous photo sets on my other blog , ...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Eastern Class 1 Freight

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Station signs are a uniform way of figuring out where you are on the railroad.  Sure mileposts work to, but important landmarks like station...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

NS Dispatching Desks Moved to Atlanta

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Following the lead of CSX consolidating all of it's dispatchers in Jacksonville, NS is moving all of it's dispatchers to Atlanta.  T...
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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 ...
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