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, February 23, 2020

NS Altavista District: A PL Haven...For Now

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The NS Altavista district is a low grad coal route between Roanoke and Abiline, VA and I just saw some current photos showing that it has so...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Stop vs Proceed - Telling the Difference

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Where railroad signals are involved there are two schools of thought.  Should I stay or should I go?  Usually this is pretty clear cut, but ...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Off Brand Modular Signals

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Usually when a railroad has gone all in for modular color light signals they place an order for a GRS D type , a Safetran CLS-20 or whateve...
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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Trackside Photographer Profiles NY Central Towers

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The Trackside Photographer is a great publication and I've have been tapped a few times to provide content there.  Recently I noticed t...
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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