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.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

US&S Loses Its Home Field Advantage

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 Union Switch and Signal had always maintained a bit of a home field advantage around Pittsburgh, with the local railroads, most notably the...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Arizona's Sky Island SP Signals Vanish

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In southern Arizona one encounters the phenomena known as sky islands, where isolated mountain ranges, separated by harsh desert, become in ...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Inside WINSLOW Tower: Then and Now

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If there was a moment where I got into railroad signaling, it would be in the fall of 1998 when I quite literally got "into" railr...
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Saturday, July 6, 2024

Pittsburgh Line Points of Interest

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While NS's move to embrace cab signaling without fixed wayside signals (which I will refer to as Rule 562) on the former Conrail Pittsbu...
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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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