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Model Railroader (MR) is an American magazine about the hobby of model railroading. Founded in 1934 by Al C. Kalmbach , it is published monthly by Firecrown Media of Chattanooga, Tennessee .
The company's first publication was The Model Railroader, which began publication in the summer of 1933 at 545 S. 84th Street in Milwaukee (now site of a car wash), with a cover date of January 1934. A press release announcing the magazine appeared in August 1933, but did not receive much interest.
It took Kalmbach seven years to pay off the loans used to launch the magazine. Al Kalmbach did much to popularize the hobby. His main interest was operation. He enjoyed being the dispatcher at the Model Railroad Club of Milwaukee, and published many articles on operation. He also wrote a book, How to Run a Model Railroad, under the name Boomer ...
In December 1940, the magazine absorbed The Modelmaker, which was first published by Spon & Chamberlain in January 1924 and was the only magazine dedicated to model building until Model Craftsman was founded. The magazine also increased to 74 pages. [5] As the magazine's editorial focus shifted entirely toward the hobby of model railroading ...
Great Model Railroads, Easy Model Railroad Wiring, The Model Railroader's Guide to Passenger Equipment & Operations and The Model Railroader's Guide to Freight Yards Andy Sperandeo (September 1, 1945 – October 2, 2015) was an editorial employee of Kalmbach Publishing 's Model Railroader Magazine beginning in 1979.
John Whitby Allen (July 2, 1913 – January 6, 1973) was a prominent American model railroader.He pioneered or developed several aspects of the hobby on his HO scale Gorre & Daphetid model railroad in Monterey, California, popularizing them with numerous magazine articles and photographs starting in the 1940s.
From the late 1940s to the early 1950s Ellison wrote a series of articles for Model Railroader magazine entitled "The Art of Model Railroading." These missives were later collected into a book entitled Frank Ellison on Model Railroading (Fawcett Books, Greenwich CT, 1954). Ellison had worked for many years in theatre and this experience ...
In 2013 the NMRA started the process of moving the library to the California State Railroad Museum. [4] The library was adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Railway Georgia Division and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. It is named for Al C. Kalmbach, founder of Kalmbach Publishing, whose original magazines are Model Railroader and Trains.