The year 1958 was one of change for Grand Central Terminal.   
      
   New York Central management, after the death of Robert Young,   
   concluded that passenger service was losing serious money   
   and ordered a number of cutbacks.   
      
      
   . The premier train, the 20th Century Limited, was now losing   
   money, gained coaches, added six stops to its run, and lost   
   its elite extra-fare status.   
      
   . The Putnam branch was abandoned   
      
   . The New York Central aggressively sought to rent any idle space   
   in the terminal.   
      
   . The ticket office was getting used to the new Burroughs Ticketeer   
   machines, which printed tickets automatically from a matrix strip.   
   (That system would continue into the Penn Central and even   
   Conrail.)   
      
   . Planning began to build what would become the Pan Am building   
   atop the terminal.   
      
   . The Western Union Telegraph office still was busy enough to   
   require 30 employees in 1958.  Overnight alone 2,000 messages   
   arrived to be delivered by 9 a.m.)   
      
   . In January 1958, NYC CEO Robert Young died and Alfred Perlman   
   took over.   
      
   . In February 1958, transcontinental service was terminated.  It had   
   been championed by Robert Young, but was expensive and not   
   successful.   
      
   . In July 1958 the NYC terminated its contract with the Pullman   
   Company and operated sleeping cars themselves.   
      
   . NYC continued to sell off passenger station buildings.   
      
   . They still had the trains to overnight camps, carrying 5,000 passengers.   
      
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