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.

Saturday, September 30, 2023

LIRR VALLEY Tower Closes and Other News

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I just got an unfortunate report that the famed LIRR VALLEY tower was closed for good after surviving nearly 2 decades after it was re-sign...
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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Suck It In! - PRR Compact Position Lights

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 When the Pennsylvania Railroad needed a reduced clearance version of their brand new position light signal, they made a position light vers...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Go No Go: Cab Signaled Transit Wayside Dialects

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In the late 1960's a new crop of "Space Aged" rapid transit systems began to take shape in North America making use of the new...
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...
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