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, May 31, 2022

GRESHAM JCT's Sequence Switches Explained

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 Years ago I wrote up a profile of METRA's GRESHAM JUNCTION tower on the Rock Island division south of Chicago.  Not only had GRESHAM J...
Friday, May 20, 2022

CSX Bags Guilford But When to Expect Change?

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CSx is set to complete its purchase of the former Guilford Rail System (currently branded pan Am Railways) on June 1, 2022.  However does th...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Montana Rail Link Loses Its Lease

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This news isn't exactly new, but I figured I should go over the signaling implications of the end of Montana Rail Link 's lease of 4...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Union Pacific to Abandon ATC and ACS Effective June 1, 2022

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 Well after about 18 months of regulatory approval, Union Pacific is set to remove all mention of the CNW Automatic Train Control and more ...
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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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