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, November 30, 2024

CSX Accelerates Boston and Maine Resignaling

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It appears that CSX has put its foot to the floor regarding resignaling the former Boston and Main Eastern Route Main Line. From the MBTA d...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

THORN Tower's Last Act

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Amtrak's THORN tower has been staffed 24/7 and routing trains on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line since 1938, however after h...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Some Apalachian Signal News

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We first head to the N&W H-Line where ARCADIA interlocking is the next to get hit by the replacement ax. See my previous report for a m...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

PHOTOS: Amtrak CORK Tower

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 A while ago I posted the first part of my coverage of the Pennsylvania Railroad's 1929 CORK interlocking tower in Lancaster, PA which ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

More Connecticut River Corridor News

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 Although my last update on the Connecticut Valley Corridor was only back in March, I have some additional updates from a follow up trip in ...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

A Video Guide to French "Poste d'Aiguillage"

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Getting information on interlocking tower / signalboxes outside the anglosphere can be a bit difficult not only due to the language barrier,...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

There Unitl it Wasn't: Nova's VN Tower

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In the early years of my "keep track of towers" hobby, one Class 1 tower stood out for the sheer improbability of its survival. Fo...
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