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.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

The River Line's Last Conrail Signals - Part 1

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Over the years I have reported on the CSX re-signaling efforts on the former Conrail River Line along the west side of the Hudson River. T...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Last Traditional Signalbox Closes in New Zealand

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Word has come down that Wellington A Signalbox has closed. Constructed in 1937 in conjunction with the Hutt Valley 1.5kv DC suburban electr...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Valleysignals.org.nz Fades Into History

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While performing research on an upcoming post I regrettable discovered that the excellent Hutt Valley signaling website (aka Valley Signals...
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

DOCK Movable Bridge to Become DOCK Bridge

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In 2017 the great DOCK tower closed as a staffed interlocking station after about 80 years of service. However the imposing structure retai...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

New Signals at IVANHOE

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Just saw this pic of new signals going up at IVANHOE crossing on the former Conrail Porter Branch. Built as the Michigan Central's main ...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

RRPictureArchives Long Term Outage

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It appears that the popular website rrpicturearchives.net has suffered a disc failure that will result in a long term outage.  Based on for...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

GLENWOOD Tower Demolished

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It has been reported, and confirmed on street view , that the former B&O tower in the Glenwood section of Pittsburgh has been demolished...
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