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, May 31, 2024

Washington Union Station CPLs go LED

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It appears that the next step in Amtrak's surprising B&O CPL renaissance is the upgrade of those in the Washington Union Terminal ar...
Friday, May 24, 2024

PU Tower Restoration Update

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Former Central RR of New Jersey PU (Phillipsburg Union) tower in Phillipsburg, NJ recently held an open house to shot off the state of the t...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

SEPTA Broad St Subway Signal Project

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The SEPTA Broad Street Line is notable for being one of the best examples of pneumatically powered signaling appliances in the form of point...
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Sunday, May 5, 2024

Southern Caltrain Signaling Changes

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With Caltrain's new electrification set to kick off soon, I have been checking if there have been any additional signaling changes beyon...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

RF&P Cab Signals Out of Serice Mid-June

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When CSX first announced in plan to discontinue cab signal rules on the RF&P in 2021 I went into some detail about the possible motivati...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

NJT's Speed Enforcement System: A Thing That Existed

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You might have heard me reference the Northeast's preferred transponder based PTC system ACSES, or the Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement ...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Livonia, Avon and Lakeville's Captive Signals

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There's a concept in preservation that's analogous to the world of wildlife conservation. In the ideal scenario animals are present ...
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