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.

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

MG Tower Still Lives!

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I had the opportunity to get some rear window time on Amtrak's Eastbound Pennsylvanian and although the last of the position light signa...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

PTC Capacity Impact Visualized

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 I've frequently pointed out the impacts of Positive Train Control on train performance in general. While not technically inherent to t...
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Sunday, May 14, 2023

ATCS Caught in Frequency Realignment

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I know I'm a couple years late on this news, but ATCS ( Advanced Train Control System ) radio relay that replaced pole based code lines ...
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Saturday, May 6, 2023

State DoT's Got My Memos

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Seems like my blog has been having an impact on some state highway departments based on some of the innovating new road traffic signal indic...
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Sunday, April 30, 2023

SEPTA's PTC Implementation Is Still Terrible

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Unlike previous generations of automatic train control, the on board PTC software has as much if not more to do with the operational impact ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Remembering South Jersey's Insulator Ranch

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For years, if one were driving near Atlantic City, New Jersey, perhaps taking a shortcut between the Atlantic City Expressway exit 12 and th...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Signals by EMD?

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So I happened to be watching one of Distant Signal's recent videos on Youtube about CSX's project to signal the Brunswick Sub into ...
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