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.

Thursday, June 30, 2022

PHOTOS: Inside GLENWOOD JCT

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GLENNWOOD JCT, aka WJ, is located in Pittsburgh's Glenwood neighborhood on the banks of the Monongahela River. Built in 1908 by the Balt...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Beware the Three Headed Monster

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 In North American railroad Signaling truly "universal" rules are pretty rare as in almost every situation one can usually find ex...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

PTC In Practice - A Passengers Perspective

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 It was once again time for my annual round trip to Georgia via Amtrak Trains 79, 19 and 20 and I was actually able to experience some PTC r...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

Harrisburg Power Dispatcher's Office to be Preserved!

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 Amtrak's Harrisburg terminal complex has not one but three signaling related landmarks of great historic value.  The first is HARRIS to...
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...
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