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, January 26, 2020

2020 A-Line Trip Report

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So I recently had the opportunity to ride Amtrak's Palmetto for almost its entire run to Savannah which would be my first trip since 201...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

God Bless the Guilford - Part 2

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Back in Part 1 I used the example of the new Wachusett MBTA station to highlight how the Guilford Rail System was bucking the trend of ster...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

QUEENS Tower Closes

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At 11:38pn on January 10th, 2020, the Long Island Railroad's QUEENS tower was closed with control passing to the dispatch office at Jam...
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Saturday, January 4, 2020

New New Searchlights at Chicago Union

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Amtrak's Chicago Union Station has been a haven for oddball signaling.  It's new stuff, from about 2005, consists of tri-color LED s...
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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. ...
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