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, December 31, 2021

CSX Files to Discontinue Cab Signaling on RF&P

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Virginia has become somewhat of a purple state both in its politics and its approach to higher speed passenger rail. Recently the state spe...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Caught on Camera: Amtrak's Two Indication Block Signals?

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 Twice in the last year I have had the fortune to catch and video the strange situation of Amtrak intermediate signals transitioning directl...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

133 Year Old BO Tower in Kalamazoo (Finally) Demolished

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The demolition of some towers, like Fostoria's JACKSON ST , come as a surprise.  On the other hand other tower are clearly on the pah to...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Fostoria's Historic JACKSON ST Tower Demolished

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 JACKSON ST tower, located in Fostoria, Ohio, may not be as well known as the famous tower located at the Iron Triangle , but JACKSON ST wa...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Explore French Signaling on the Aubrac Line

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 A short while ago, a video on the least used passenger rail station in all of France piqued my interest in the Aubrac Line between Beziers...
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...
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