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.

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Texas Eagle Trip Report

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At the end of March I took an Amtrak trip from Washington, DC to Dallas Texas and was able to get survey photos between DC and Cumberland, M...
Monday, April 22, 2019

PHOTOS: CP-TITUS - History of Flat Junction

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CP-TITUS, formerly known as Klapperthal Junction under the Reading railroad, was a British style two-track flat junction that survived until...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Caught on Camera: Original BART CTC Dispatch Center

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Control centers with non-video displays are a true work of art and are vanishing just as quickly as the interlocking tower.  Wiring up a cus...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Early US&S Promotional CTC Video

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The first Centralized Traffic Control installation was developed by the General Railway Signaling company in 1927 for the New York Central i...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

NS and CSX Re-signaling News

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I am on a trip to Texas and I'll have a more detailed trip report shortly, but I wanted to first report on some additional bits of signa...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019

The ABC's of GRS Model 5 Switch Machines

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Today in North America railroads pretty much have two choices with it comes to power operated switch machines.  They can get a Union Switch ...
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Sunday, March 17, 2019

LENOX and WILLOWS Towers Close

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In a devastating blow to St Louis area rail history and living examples of General Railway Signal Co technology, I just learned that both LE...
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