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, May 28, 2021

10 Years of The Position Light - A Milepost

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Not sure anybody noticed, but May 28th marks a decade since I started this blog as a place to archive long form signaling related content I ...
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Saturday, May 22, 2021

Approach Lighting - Special When Lit

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Today we are going to examine approach lit signals, what they are, their history, how they are classified and finally, who is using them. Wh...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021

LENOX Tower Demolished as Singleslip Scrubbed

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I previously reported on the 2018 closure of LENOX tower a Big Four (NY Central) tower between Alton and St. Louis that had ended up under ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Metro-North to Penn Station Threatens Rare Amber PL's

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 Because of the unsustainable drive to create one seat rides, The State of NY has been eyeing sending New Haven Line Metro North trains over...
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...
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