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, November 24, 2019

Reading, PA Trip Report

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I went on a signal trip to the Reading, PA area this past weekend where, for those of your who don't know, NS has a bit of a hub going o...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Pittsburgh Line Cab Signal Overlaps and Human Factors

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A recent derailment between three NS freight trains near Labrobe, PA sent me down the rabbit hole of human factors and accident prevention ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

CBTC is a Scam and the MBTA Backs Me Up

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Communications Based Train Control promises higher capacity at lower costs thanks to the magic of WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY!  However almost every...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

The Alstom GM4000 - It's a Fake!

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Excuse the click-bait-y title, but I just discovered something the other day that I wanted to bring to everybody's attention.  In North ...
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

PRR Main Line Signal Documentation Summary

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On Nov 25th I am going to be presenting my work to document the PRR Main Line signaling between CP-HARRIS and CP-PENN at my local NRHS chapt...
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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