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.

Monday, February 27, 2023

Former Conrail Indy Line Re-Signaling

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 In a recent post I made a quick comment about CSX replacing former Conrail type signals on the former Big Four main line near Quincy, OH. ...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Reading and Northern Video Update

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 It's been a good while since my last Reading and Northern update and although there's been nothing earth shattering I was recently...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Amtrak's B&P Tunnel Related Signaling Work

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Amtrak recently filed with the FRA to replace its Rule 261 signaling between BRIDGE interlocking in south Baltimore and GROVE interlocking ...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Don't Regulate Defect Detectors Like Signals

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It looks like the derailment in East Palistine, Ohio is causing another full blown safety panic of the type that brought us Positive Train C...
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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Caught on Camera: The US&S M22

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The Union Switch and Signal M3 series of switch machines (including the M3, M23 and A and B models of both) is so ubiquitous and has been ar...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

The Ongoing Saga of D&H Main Line Signaling

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Last we checked in on the former D&H Main Line between Albany and Sunbury/Scranton, NS had reversed its decision to abandon all of the ...
Friday, January 13, 2023

CP-SK Changes Its Spots

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In 2020 I reported on some unsettling activity at CP-SK on the former Conrail Selkirk branch with new Darth Vader masts going up to replac...
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