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, January 30, 2024

Amtrak's Post Road Puzzle

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The Albany Port Road Branch, now under long term lease to Amtrak, has an interesting history. One of the few stretches of non-commuter North...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Hoosac to Hudson: The State of Western B&M Signaling

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For years the western end of the old Boston and Maine main line between the Hoosac Tunnel and Mechanicville, NY has been subjected to a high...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Velcorp Gems - A New Signal Supplier Enters the Fray

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While out riding the new MBTA Green Line Extension I noticed a new corporate brand stenciled onto the back of a cheap looking transit type L...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

1994 SUISUN BRIDGE Cabin Tour

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 Movable bridge cabins are the invisible step children of the interlocking tower scene, but its easy to forget that they have all the same s...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

2023 Searchlight News

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 For the last post of 2023 I'm going to go through my backlog of searchlight related news items. First up is the Florida East Coast wher...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

The Last N&W CPL Dwarfs?

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It's sometimes easy to forget that the PRR position light dwarf signal was also used by PRR ally Norfolk and Western Railway in addition...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

BNSF CTC Replacing Union Pacific Julesburg Sub ABS/TWC

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Just a heads up that about 24 miles of ABS/TWS (aka Rule 271) on the Union Pacific Julesburg Sub in northern Colorado is being converted to ...
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