NYT of 3/24/56 says New York Central RR, New Haven RR, and Santa Fe RR will
acquire systems for Pullman space reservations.  Whether they actually did and
how long they used such a system I don't know.

The system described above was built by the Teleregister Corp. for American
Airlines.  AA used it until SABRE, a true computerized system, replaced it in
the early 1960s.  SABRE was able to store more information for each passenger,
plus allow the 
airline to draw off utilization reports.

Teleregister became part of TRW and Bunker Ramo.  It's main business was stock
quotations.

A lot of fancy electronic equipment was developed in the 1950s, but not all of
it was practical.  Sometimes a highly touted machine was purchased and used
for a relatively short time, being retired because it wasn't practical in
actual operation.  I 
believe the Pennsylvania Railroad got a fancy system in the late
1950s--complete with moving clerk chairs and TV screens to view records--that
didn't work very well.

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