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, July 31, 2019

CN Cripples Chicago 16th St / 21st St Corridor

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In a move that could only make sense as part of some nefarious plan to cripple Amtrak service, Canadian National has single tracked a critic...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019

ALTO: One Tower, Four Roads

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This article originally appeared in The Trackside Photographer in November of 2018.  It builds on my previous coverage of ALTO tower post...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

CP-ROCHESTER Gutted

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This might be a few weeks old, but I just wanted to report that the famous CP-ROCHESTER was pretty much completely removed, replaced by a ne...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

HALLETT Tower Closes (DB DRAWBRIDGE too)

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Just got the bad news that what I believe is the last "tower" style tower in Ohio closed some time in late April.  HALLETT, locate...
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Sunday, June 30, 2019

God Bless the Guilford

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In this age of Darth Vader signals and shiny metal structures, it's nice to find a railroad that isn't afraid to stick with traditio...
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

New Web Hosting and THORN Tower Page Revamp

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For about 14 years my primary web hosting was a student computer club at a major university. Memberships and server access were off the lif...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

EAST (and WEST) BRIDGE JCT Tower Closes

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In a somewhat surprising bit of bad news, EAST BRIDGE JUNCTION interlocking tower closed a week or two ago.  Operated by the New Orleans Pub...
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