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, September 8, 2023

PHOTOS: CORK Interlocking

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Over the first century of its existence the vaunted Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line between Philadelphia and Harrisburg suffered from a sign...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

NJT (CNJ) ESSAY Tower Demolished

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 I have the sad duty to report the demolition of ESSAY (aka SA) tower in South Amboy, NJ. Nominally a CNJ tower on the jointly PRR/CNJ opera...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

You Want to Live in the Box?

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As housing costs in some of North America's most desirable areas continue to skyrocket, enterprising vagrants have discovered a somewhat...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

LIRR East Side Access Signaling Surprises

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When the LIRR's new East Side Access opened to Grand Central Terminal earlier this summer and I was expecting the signaling to follow t...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

The Final Months at AC Tower

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Looks like the Railroad Media Archive has done it again with a video covering the last few months of operation at the former Erie AC tower ...
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...
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