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, August 30, 2020

MBTA Installing New Searchlights in Lowell

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I know this is the third MBTA post in a row, but I was preparing for a trip there, which led to some discoveries, and then actually went on ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Better Know a Signaling System: Staten Island Railway

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Now I know what most people are thinking, the Staten Island Railway uses B&O Color Position Light signals and I already covered B&O...
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Saturday, August 15, 2020

MBTA Cab Signal Project to Include All South side Lines

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I previously reported on the Rule 562 cab signaling project on the Boston Line that extended the cab signaling from CP-21 in Framingham to ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Former Conrail Boston Line Completes Cab Signal Conversion

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Sometime over the winter of 2019/20 the MBTA cut in the last section of Rule 562 cab signal without fixed wayside signal territory on the fo...
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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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