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, June 28, 2020

MUNI Metro Subway - Unrealized Capacity

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You may have read about MUNI's radical attempts to deal with congestion issues in its Metro Subway that runs under Market Street and al...
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Sunday, June 21, 2020

PHOTOS: GWYNN Tower

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The PRR's GWYNN tower, originally named GWYNNS RUN, was built in 1931-32 and replaced the small, wood frame VN (Cal V erto N Yard) towe...
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Saturday, June 13, 2020

Exit Stage Right - Leaving Signaled Territory

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Typically I write about railroad signaling, occasionally touching on non-signaled block systems such as TWC or DTC.  Each are more or less s...
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Saturday, June 6, 2020

Japan Shows Us How It's Done (again)

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I found an interesting puff piece on Youtube showing off Keikyu Railway 's method of supervised train dispatch on their 87km network on ...
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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...
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