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, March 30, 2023

New Signals at RONDOUT Tower

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Way back in 2005 METRA's RONDOUT Tower was closed, however because it was a relay plant with a US&S unit lever machine, RONDOUT int...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

FRA Approves RFP Sub Cab Signal Removal

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The FRA has granted CSX's December 2021 request to discontinue use of cab signals on the former Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac r...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Signal Replacement on the N&W H-Line

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 One of the few remaining holdouts of classic signaling in the northeast has been the former Norfolk and Western H-Line between Roanoke and ...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Look For The Union Label

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The Union Switch and Signal M3 family of electric point machines set the standard for performance and reliability, however entering into th...
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 ...
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