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.

Monday, June 30, 2025

MARION (AC) Tower's Missing CTC Machine

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A couple years ago the folks at the Railroad Media Archive Youtube Channel posted a video covering the last months of Conrail's MARION...
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Saturday, June 21, 2025

New Pittsburgh Line Interlockings

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Norfolk Southern's ability to extort the state of Pennsylvania to add additional passenger frequencies on the old Pennsylvania Railroad ...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Clear to Next Interlocking Rule 280a Displayed at CP-SOLOMON (EAST PITT)

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In NORAC-aligned cab signal territory where wayside intermediate signals are not provided, Rule 280a, "Clear to Next Interlocking"...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Open Railway Map's Signaling Layer is Hot Garbage

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Open Railway Map (ORM) is a great resource that recently came on the scene to allow for fast identification and tracing of railway lines, r...
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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Adios B&O MEXICO Tower

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The reason I tend to miss a lot of closures and demolitions is because I don't tend to seek out news that will leave me bummed and depre...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

NECR Resignaling Project is Complete

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I can report that the re-signaling of the New Englande Centrale's main line that hosts Amtrak's Vermonter north of the Massachusetts...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

No Approach! The Duality of Uncommon Signals

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We all learn about traffic lights in elementary school.  Red means stop, green means go and yellow means slow or caution. These are the basi...
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