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, October 31, 2023

ALTO Tower Preservation Plans At Risk

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It has been a decade since ALTO tower in Altoona, PA closed and after a conversation with persons directly involved in the process I ha...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

A New Source for Railfan Window Videos

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While trying to gather information for my recent SEPTA Unilens post , I discovered a newish railfan video channel with a large amount of up ...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

SEPTA Sours on Unilens Dwarfs

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In yet another chapter of the rail industry's love-hate relationship with the Safetran Unilens signal, over the last few years SEPTA has...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Steppin' Out - PRR Stepped PL Mountings

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 The typical view of Pennsylvania Railroad position light signals mounted on a steel angle iron signal bridge is one where two heads are mou...
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...
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