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, April 29, 2022

The Trials and Tribulations of Los Angeles' Closed Towers

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This post fits neatly into the "old news" category as the events I am noting took place something like 4+ years ago, but it will p...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Presenting PRR Main Line Towers in the 21st Century

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Well, once again I put my hand up to do a program for an NRHS Chapter meeting and since it was for Philly Chapter instead of West Jersey I w...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

CSX Talahassee Sub- A New Signaling Museum

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CSX's habit of spinning off less profitable subdivisions to short line operators has created another signaling museum, this time in the ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2022

Union Pacific Automatic Cab Signal Training Videos

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 With the fate of UP's Automatic Cab Signal system unclear , I found what appear to be 1980's ACS training videos on Youtube.  The f...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Belorussian Signal Sabotage

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After some initial reports back in early March, it has been more extensively reported since the Russian withdraw from the northern from tha...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

PATH - Still Full of Hot Air

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 Although The PATH has stood up a CBTC solution to increase capacity and fulfill its PTC requirement as a railroad, they still maintain a re...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

2022 Hudson Valley News

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My 2022 road trip up the Hudson River valley uncovered several more newsworthy elements than I had encountered in 2021.  The first and forem...
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