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, June 30, 2023

Farewell to a Fellow Fanatic

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A little while ago I learned that Robert L. Atkison, a Pittsburgh area native that I had run into a couple of times at a friend's BBQ ev...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

Caught on Camera: Mendon, MO Level Crossing

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 One side effect of taking photos from the back of long distance Amtrak trains is that from time to time you get a good shot of what might e...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

THORN Goes on a Diet and Other Pneumatic News

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Since I last visited THRON interlocking on Amtrak's Harrisburg Line, more progress has been made towards rationalizing the interlocking ...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

Caught on Camera: Bastard A-5

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While getting photos around the JO section of ZOO interlocking I noticed some interesting writing on the A-5 pneumatic point machine attache...
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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