 When opened, the rebuilt terminal was named the Alfred E. Perlman Yard.Perlman's modernization of the Central's physical plant also included paring down four-track main line routes to double track with centralized traffic control.On January 16, 1957, he was the first to push the button at the Erie, Pennsylvania, control center activating the world's longest stretch of electronically controlled railroad, at a cost of $6,238,460.