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.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

AR Tower - Hanging In There.

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As with my previous post on the state of MG tower , I can confirm that AR tower is in a similar state of limbo, partly gutted of some compon...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

FAIR Minus Air

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 As I previously reported in 2019 , Amtrak's FAIR interlocking in Trenton, NJ was having its pneumatic point machines replaced by electr...
Friday, April 16, 2021

PHOTOS: GREENBELT - The Last CPLs

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In the fall of 2014 CSX completed multi-year re-signaling efforts in the heart of its former Baltimore and Ohio territory that included the...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

What the KCS - CN/CP Merger Means for Signaling

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 A few months ago I discussed the absolute signaling disaster the potential purchase of Pam Am by CSX would be.  Since rail mergers are sud...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

FTA 2013 CBTC Case Study, With Takeaways!

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It's time for another government document hiding in plain sight! This time we have CBTC case study from 2013 that covers the NYCTA 2003...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

PHOTOS: Bonus Port Road Trips - Inside COLA Tower

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Opened in 1938, COLA tower, in Columbia, PA was closed around 1986 and then served as a glorified relay hut until 2012 when the interlockin...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Failed a Spot check 2

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Unlike last time , I'm the one that failed the roll, completely missing a classic signal in the DuBois, PA Buffalo and Pittsburgh CTC Is...
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