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 29, 2021

The NTSB's Sound of Silence

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 From about 2005 until 2018 every time there was a serious passenger train or freight derailment, the NTSB would always make some remark abo...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

Vermonter Route Signaling Report

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I recently completed a trip on Amtrak's Vermonter all the way to White River Junction, which covers all of the signaling on the route.  ...
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Sunday, September 12, 2021

NS Withdraws Most Signal Abandonments

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While I don't have specific details, NS has reportedly withdrawn most of its recently planned signal abandonments , including the forme...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

ARSENAL Re-Signaling Underway & PENN Interlocking News

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As I previously reported Rule 562 signaling is going up at ARSENAL interlocking and I made an effort to actually get a photo of the offendi...
Monday, August 30, 2021

MBTA Putting Cab Signals w/o Waysides on Guilford Main Line

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 I had previously reported on the conversion of at least some North Side MBTA lines to a system of cab signals without wayside signals as p...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Conrail Tower Videos

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 Despite the algorithm Youtube's discovery system is still pretty spotty so I wanted to share a few videos I found showing the operation...
Monday, August 16, 2021

Line of Sight - DART's Third Method

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Last year ago I wrote an article on how the DART light rail system in Dallas used two distinct signaling methods.  Automatic Block Signals ...
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