The Pennsy used teletype, called the Intelex system. I don't have any recollection of how it worked, other than that we typed the reservations into it. We may have had racks showing space available on varionus trains, on various days. I worked in the reservation bureau, on the 7th Ave. side of the old Penn Station, for a few months, from the end of 1956 until it closed. Then we went downstairs, to what is now the seating area in the main coucourse; but was then the brand new ticket office, in the brand new (ugh) station; and used little TV monitors to reserve space. I still remember some of the abreviations we used in the Intelex system: NKO for Newark, Ohio, but we used it for Newark, NJ; WDC for Washington, and PHA for Philadelphia. Philip Martin > That all makes sense, but we are looking at the age of PRE computers. Just > wondering how a central bureau worked in 1954? Via Phone? Via Tela Type? The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2008 ***********************************
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