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.

Sunday, July 30, 2023

SEPTA Completes ARSENAL Re-Signaling

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SEPTA is finally wrapping up its ARSENAL interlocking re-signaling and track reconfiguration project that has been underway since 2019 (!)....
Saturday, July 22, 2023

A Second B&O CPL For Baltimore Penn

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A year ago I reported on Amtrak replacing the NECIP era cantilever mast covering tracks 7 and 8 at CHARLES interlocking with a pedestal and...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Piercing the Beltway: 50 Years of Change at New Carrollton

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The southernmost end of the Pennsylvania's New Yor to Washington Main Lines has seen a number of interesting changes since the funding o...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Signal Replacements at DOSWELL and DOGWOOD

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The famous DOSWELL bracket mast is probably on the top-10 list of vintage signal survivors and 20 years after the re-signaling project that ...
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 ...
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