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.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

BART Going with CTBC

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 You might have missed it due to COVID news coverage, but back in January 2020, whomever it is that runs BART decided to use some new taxpay...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Decision 2020

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 With all the election talk going on there was one take noticeably absent from the public discourse.  That would be who should one vote for ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Fall 2020 Signaling News

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 After a long period of not much going on I recently uncovered a bunch of signaling new, little of it good.  First off, the last pure ATSF s...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Data Infrastructure Increasingly Substitutes for Radio Comms

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I have been reading reports that as PTC systems are being certified for operation, their data transmission facilities are being used to tran...
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 ...
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