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, August 31, 2024

Portland MAX Signaling Primer

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In the 1980's and 90's North America's light rail renaissance didn't just save money over traditional urban metro systems by...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

When Urbex Meets Signaling

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While there is a lot of crossover between the urban exploration (Urbex) community and the rail enthusiast community, the Ven diagram doesn...
Friday, August 16, 2024

New Signals at Portland Union Station

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For the last year or more, Portland (Oregon) Union Station has been involved in a slow motion re-signaling project that will unfortunately ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

The End of Main Line Pneumatic Points

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There's a lot of work taking place on the former PRR Northeast Corridor these days and unfortunately it appears that the era of main lin...
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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