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.

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The Last Days of COLA Tower

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I just stumbled upon a Youtube video from 2015 showing video shot inside COLA tower in Columbia, PA about two months before and then again ...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

PHOTOS: Reading DARBY CREEK DRAWBRIDGE

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The Reading Darby Creek Drawbridge is located on a bit of industrial track that served industry along the Delaware River between Philadelphi...
Monday, June 14, 2021

P&LE Tower Update - CP-3Y Demolished

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 A couple years ago I posted a piece on how to use Google Street View to check on the status of surviving interlocking towers.  At the tim...
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Sunday, June 6, 2021

PHOTOS: Inside SEPTA's Last Towers

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Over the last 20 years North America has seen the virtual extinction of "Paper Dispatching", the practice of railroad dispatchers ...
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 ...
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