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, June 29, 2024

RBMN CTC Gap Slowly Closes

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 In my last RBMN signaling update from a speeder video in the winter of 2022 , I noticed that turned signals had appeared in the last gap of...
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Saturday, June 22, 2024

Lock It Up! Electrically Locked Points

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 Electrically locked switches are the red headed stepchildren of the interlocking world. Not nearly as glamorous as their powered brethren, ...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

Amtrak FAIR Interlocking Loses Its Quirks

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 A little while back I discussed the evolution of NORTH PHILADELPHIA interlocking from its construction in 1914 to its disestablishment in ...
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Saturday, June 8, 2024

Ghosts of Union Pacific Cab Signals

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Until recently Union Pacific operated one of the most extensive systems of cab signaled main line in North American, if not the most extensi...
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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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