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.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

A Tale of Two British Railway Signaling Public Information Films

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 The UK is well known for a certain style of public information film that were professionally produced up through the 1980's. A couple g...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

British Power Signaling Channel Heads Down Under

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About seven years ago I discovered the Youtube channel of one Ian Ives , who had posted a variety of VHS era videos from inside British pow...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

NASSAU Tower - Gone But Not Forgotten

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You may recall that some years ago I was sounding the alarm about the pending demolition of NASSAU tower in Mineola, Long Island. Well, Ne...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

NYCTA CBTC Plan to Prioritize Closing Main Line IND Towers

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 I just wanted to share a little info graphic put out by the NYC Transit Authority about its upcoming re-signaling plans.  In summary, due t...
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...
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