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, March 31, 2024

2024 NEC Reference Video

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 A side effect of Allan Fisher's recent "Festival Express" style journey from New York to Saint Louis in a private car full o...
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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Vermonter Route Signal Update

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About 3 years ago I wrote a fairly positive report on the state of signaling on Amtrak's Vermonter route between New Haven and White Ri...
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

THE Source for LIRR Tower Information

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The rather secretive nature of the LIRR has always made it somewhat difficult to find information about its signaling infrastructure and int...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Reading Viaduct Signaling Remains

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On November 6th, 1984 the last train departed the historic Reading Terminal in center city Philadelphia 4 days after the completion of the ...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

The NS Bridge Line PTC Adventure

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For years concerns of PTC interoperability drove all manner of decision making at freight and passenger railroads. For example's CSX dec...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Harrisburg Power Office Gets Up and Running

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Since my last update on the status of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Harrisburg Power Director's Office a surprising amount of progres...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

METRA Confronts Sticky Speeds

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METRA recently announced that they were looking to raise speeds on its electric division from the current 65mph to 80 or even 90mph. Typica...
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