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"Wanna see my smilin' face on the cover of the Rolling Stone" -Dr. Hook- Great Model Railroads 2025, featuring the definitive article on The Hills Line, is now available at fine hobby stores everywhere and on the Trains.com Store. Be right back... I'm off to buy five copies for my mother.
Like many modelers, I'm still processing the announcement that Kalmbach has sold their rail-related titles to Firecrown. Model Railroader, Trains, and Kalmbach Books (among others) are now part of the Chattanooga-based company, joining their existing transportation-based publications. To be clear, I work in media. I understand that sales, mergers, and spinoffs are part and parcel … Continue reading Abyssinia, Kalmbach
Blatant self-promotion time returns, as The Hills Line is featured in several publications this month. The first is my article in the always impressive Model Railroad Planning. For the 2024 edition, I share how I can host two separate eras on the same layout. It's always an honor to appear in Tony Koester's annual treatise … Continue reading Mr. January
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” -Douglas Adams- With the publication and shipping of Kalmbach Media's latest book, Building What's In A Photo, I can now share some additional photos from the my submission "Building an offline customer". It also gives me the opportunity to tell the … Continue reading Under Pressure
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