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.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

High Impedance

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An often overlooked issue with railroad (or transit) electrification is the conflicting requirement to use the rails for traction return cur...
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Saturday, April 25, 2020

Amtrak Dual Equips Part of NEC for I-ETMS PTC System

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Effective April 23rd, 2020, Amtrak is activating I-ETMS (Interoperable Electronic Train Management System) on its Philadelphia to Washington...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Photo Archive is Back (For Now)

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I just wanted everyone to know that I used some of my corona virus time to get the remaining years of my photos archive back up where it can...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Surviving BNSF Marceline Sub Searchlights Retired

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While this probably isn't breaking news I am still going to report the fact that the last two intact ATSF era signal bridges on the Marc...
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...
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