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, May 31, 2020

LIRR NASSAU Tower Faces Demolition Soon

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Despite the efforts of preservationist s, both the Long Island Rail Road's NASSAU interlocking tower and the adjacent 1910 substation bu...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Reading and Northern Kicks a Field Goal

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It's been over a year since my last Reading and Northern signaling project report .  Since that time Rule 261 CTC is in effect from just...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

MD and KY Survivor B&O CPLs To Fall

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Two examples of B&O Color Position Light signals that held on after re-signaling projects felled all of their neighbors, will finally me...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

PRR Legacy News

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I have two bits of news here regarding the Port Road/Enola Branch and SEPTA's ARSENAL reconstruction project.  On the Port Road I had pr...
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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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