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, March 29, 2020

NYC Subway Signaling - A Decade of Change

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Ten years ago I was provided with a amazing PDF document from the New York City Transit Authority that contained diagrams of every rail line...
Friday, March 20, 2020

DART - One System, Two Methods

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Dallas Area Rapid Transit is one of the new generation of North American light rail systems, as large in scope as many heavy or commuter ra...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Thinking About the Price of Safety

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I have been a pretty vocal critical about the value of PTC when it comes to general rail safety.  It's the sort of thing that sounds gre...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Right Hand Rule - How De-Regulation Ruined US Signaling

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Why the US railroads seem to go from having a pathological need to mount their signals to the right hand side of the tracks they governed, l...
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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