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, November 30, 2021

Coal Country Signaling Hit Hard by Declining Traffic

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 Early this year the perils facing the extensive rail infrastructure in the eastern coal region were brought to light then NS threatened to ...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

PHOTOS: NORTH PHILADELPHIA Tower

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In my previous post , I covered the history of NORTH PHILADELPHIA Interlocking and Tower that were constructed as part of a 1915 improvement...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

US&S CTC With Coded Track Circuits

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 For years I have been aware of a major split in how Traffic Control systems function at a technical level. In the US&S corner is the ...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

What Infrastructure Spending Means

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 The new trillion dollar infrastructure package will likely have an impact on that I will call "interesting signaling", I suspect ...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

PHOTOS: NORTH PHILADELPHIA Interlocking

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NORTH PHILADELPHIA is an interlocking emblematic of Philadelphia's industrial strength and the Pennsylvania Railroad's wealth and te...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Caught on Camera: Phantom Indication @ DAVIS?

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 Was processing photos from a visit to DAVIS interlocking at Newark, Delaware on Amtrak's NEC and I caught what looked like a phantom or...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Nelson Searchlights Doomed by UP Geneva Sub Re-Signaling

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 I can confirm that the Union Pacific Geneva Sub (ex-Chicago Northwestern) re-signaling project that I previously reported on is looking re...
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