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.

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

SEPTA Signaling Updates

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I just compiled a few bits of signaling news after my recent SEPTA Winter fan trip and figured I should share them while they were still fre...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

Hot Stuff! Railroad Point Heaters and Snow Melters.

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Railroads are normally pretty tolerant of ice and slow with even the snowiest lines through the Sierra Nevada or Rocky Mountains needing the...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Blockstation.Net Goes Down

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Another indispensable web 1.0 resource for those interested in Amtrak's NEC operations appears to have gone down in the last few weeks. ...
Monday, December 9, 2019

NS Fort Waye and Chicago Line News

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In early December I traveled to Chicago via Amtrak's Capitol Limited, and while there isn't much going on after the great signal pur...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

A State Without Towers

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The plight of the single interlocking tower is getting so bad that now we don't even have states without active interlocking towers, bu...
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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 ...
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