Dial-selected industrial television for ticket reservation facilities

About 6 years ago Pennsylvania Railroad found that an improvement in the method of handling ticket sales and reservations was necessary in order to decrease the time and effort required to process ticket sales. In the following years, they designed and built new ticket facilities at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pa., experimenting with new ideas and new equipment until they had a system operating which would meet the transportation demands of these cities. In 1954, they began planning a new ticket facility for Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, one of the largest railroad passenger terminals in the world, handling nearly a half-million passengers daily. This made necessary a system utilizing methods which were more efficient than those previously used in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. After considerable study of the performance and cost of several systems, closed circuit TV (television) was decided on to handle the storage and distribution of the vast amount of information necessary for the sale and reservation of space on Pennsylvania Railroad trains.