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, February 28, 2021

By the Numbers - Signal Number Plates

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 I have previously discussed how railroads used milepost number places as an easy way to distinguish absolute from intermediate (ie permiss...
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Saturday, February 20, 2021

South Station Ersatz Position Dwarfs

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It seems that our friend at L&W signaling have expanded their product range from just the long out of production PRR Position Light pede...
Friday, February 12, 2021

NS Files to Abandon Signals on Numerous Lines

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As the Class 1 railroad with the largest exposure to the failing coal industry, it is not surprising that NS has suffered the steepest traff...
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Thursday, February 4, 2021

BNSF to Retire Most ATSF ATS on 2/15/21

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On Presidents Day 2021 (likely at Midnight between Sunday and Monday), in a move that was entirely foreseen and entirely understandable (unl...
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Sunday, January 31, 2021

NYCTA KINGS HIGHWAY Tower Closes

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 While I was hoping that the massive COVID related hit to transit would freeze infrastructure "improvements", many transit agencie...
Friday, January 22, 2021

BNSF Moves to Abandon Chicago Cab Signaling

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Following in the footsteps of Union Pacific, BNSF has petitioned the FRA to abandon its cab signaling system on the former CB&Q Chicago ...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

Bell Tolls for Caltrain's 1907 Signal Bridge

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 Way back in 2004 when the San Francisco peninsular commuter rail service known as Caltrain was being modernized with new trains, new passin...
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