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, October 27, 2019

Another Secret Stash of Signal and Tower Videos

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It's always been interesting how few tower videos there are compared with like aircraft stuff where Youtube can not only provide videos ...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Yahoo Shutting Down Yahoo Groups

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For those you who who either didn't get the e-mail or don't log into their old Yahoo or Hotmail accounts anymore, Verizon, corporate...
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Sunday, October 6, 2019

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Western Freight Roads

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Well it's time to cross the Mississippi and get this series finished up.  Today I will be exploring the signs of the Western freight roa...
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Sunday, September 29, 2019

That's All She Wrote for Pittsburgh Area PLs

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Previously I reported that the NS Pittsburgh Line resignaling project had been completed.  Well I can now confirm that NS has also removed ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

NS PRR Main Line Re-Signaling Reaches Completion

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I have the sad duty to announce that the long running PRR Main Line re-signaling project has reached Milepost 353 in Pittsburgh.  Interestin...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Your Source for LIRR "Cab" Videos

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With the LIRR Budd M3's on the way out and all sorts of signaling changes under way, the Long Island Rail Road should probably be one of...
Monday, September 2, 2019

METRA Western Ave (Tower A-2) Position Lights Removed

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Seeing as how I reported on the removal of the position lights at Racine (aka CP-MORGAN) in April of 2018, I might be a little late to the ...
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