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, August 25, 2019

Vanishing NEC Pneumatics (and other News)

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The NEC continues to see a wide scale reduction in the number of pneumatic point machines. Within the last year BIDDLE and OAK interlocking...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

UK Lickey Incline Classic Signaling

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I found an interesting video on the manual block setup on Lickey Incline , the steepest Main Line gradient on the UK.  This 2.65% grade stre...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Website: Hidden Trackside Treasures Of Southwestern PA

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I wanted to take a moment to plug another blog I just found that takes an in depth historical look at the PRR Main Line between Altoona and...
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Amtrak NEC Happenings

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Just wanted to provide a quick update on some operations on the Southern NEC.  I previously reported on Amtrak's plans to extend Rule 5...
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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...
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