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, April 30, 2025

New Signals Up At THORN

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 Although not much has changed regarding the ultimate fate of THORN tower, recent photos do show what the new signaling situation is going t...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

NECR / Central Vermont Changes You May Have Missed

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While I have been posting much about the loss of former Boston and Maine searchlight signaling on the New Englande Centrale, a couple of oth...
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Saturday, April 12, 2025

CSX Continues to Attack the Big Four

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Turns out that the River Line isn't the only part of Conrail territory currently under attack by CSX signaling crews as I just saw that ...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Mr. Beast Fakes the Trolley Problem

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For those of you who don't know, " Mr. Beast " is one of the most popular figures on YouTube mostly appealing to 11-14 year ol...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Guilford Country Resignaling Updates

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With the re-signaling of the former Guilford Rail System/Boston & Maine Western Route Main Line accelerating rapidly, I managed to carry...
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

CSX Finds a New Old Off Brand M23

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I few years ago I posted an article covering changes to the US&S logo over time as seen on its M3/M23 line of electric point machines. ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

NS Ashville Cantilever is Kaput

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I have seen photos of the great Southern RR cantilever signal in downtown Ashville, NC being cut down for scrap. With modern style ABS signa...
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