 The two remaining segments of the former four-track main line were dismantled, saving the Central money in terms of both maintenance and taxes.With the opening of the Erie center in 1957, Perlman indicated the Central's entire New York-Chicago main line would be operated under centralized traffic control by 1963, and the company was already installing centralized traffic control between Buffalo and Syracuse, New York.On the historically negative side, Perlman refused to save a single New York Central steam locomotive for posterity; the only two (Mohawk) large locomotives that escaped scrapping were due to sale (L3a #3001