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, September 30, 2022

Potential NS Fort Wane Line Plan

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I've mentioned this phenomena before, but in this day and age when a Class 1 appears to have "forgotten" about some bit of cla...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

The Evolution of the Improved Saxby and Farmer Interlocking

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In the realm of railroad interlocking machines, what does this... Have in common with this... Well they are kind of the same thing, the latt...
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Friday, September 16, 2022

1992 Video of A (Tower) and ZOO Operations

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 I caught a tweet showing off some on Pentrex videos that had been uploaded to Archive.org documenting Amtrak's 1992 vintage Northeast ...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

B&M's Centralized Manual Block: The Worst CTC

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The Guilford Rail System and to some extent is predecessor Boston and Maine Railroad, had a reputation for stinginess despite being one of t...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

A Window on ZOO's Future

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 If you recall my musings on Tower Window Syndrome, you might recall that as towers age, their original windows are replaced by cheaper repl...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Roanoke and Lynchburg Trip Report

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 I recently had to the privilege of riding Amtrak's second daily round trip to Roanoke, VA, allowing for single day excursions to the St...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Failure of PTC Escaping Railroad and Railfan Circles

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 The problem with PTC and railroad safety regulation in general is that, despite having a lot of interest from transportation planners, advo...
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