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.

Friday, July 31, 2020

Somethings up at Deshler

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The CSX Toledo Branch is one of the last bastions of CPL signaling and the crossing complex at Deshler, OH is the crown jewel on the line. ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Chicagoland CNW ATS Retired

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The Intermittent inductive automatic train stop system in service on two former Chicago Northwestern commuter lines was taken out of servic...
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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Pan Am/Guilford Sale Threatens Heritage Signaling

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In case you haven't heard, the Guilford Rail System, sometimes known as Pan Am Railways is putting itself up for sale .  Owned by an ecc...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

MG and AR Towers Face Demolition

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The NS PRR Main Line re-signaling project that culminated in the fall of 2019 is claiming two additional victims in the form of AR and MG to...
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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