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.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Railroad Dispatcher Web Game

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I wanted to call attention to a new web-based North American style CTC simulation game.  It's still in beta and pretty much limited to a...
Monday, January 21, 2019

2019 Empire Corridor Trip Report

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I have once again completed my annual trek to the heart of New York Central territory via Amtrak's Empire service.  The good news is tha...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Signal Videos from the 70's, 80's and Beyond

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I don't tend to seek out railroad compilation videos, even historic.  They typically consist of about 10-20 cuts of some freight train p...
Sunday, January 6, 2019

Great Resource on Chicago Area Rail Junctions

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From the title you might think I am here to plug the Chicago Rail Junctions website, but surprisingly I am not! The prolific Industrial Sce...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Winter 2018 Reading and Northern Update

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So once again Bill Tarantino has sent me another year end Reading and Northern signaling update.  After signaling much of the line north of...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

W 4th St Tower - Closed But Not Yet Forgotten

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I previously reported that the NYC Transit Authority was closing most of the classic towers on the 6th Avenue trunk line in Manhattan.  Chi...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

IC / CNW Two Aspect Cab Signaling

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In the past I have made reference to various "two aspect" cab signaling systems, specifically those used on the Illinois Central ...
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