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Kalmbach Media

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Kalmbach Media
Kalmbach logo.png
Founded1934
FounderAl C. Kalmbach
Headquarters locationWaukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Key peopleCharles R. Croft
Publication typesBooks, magazines
Nonfiction topicsHobbies, trains, crafts, model railroading, autos, drones, astronomy, snowmobiles.
Revenuesubscscriptions
No. of employees275 [1]
Official websitewww.kalmbach.com

Kalmbach Media (formerly Kalmbach Publishing Co.) is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.[2]

History

The company's first publication was The Model Railroader, which began publication in the summer of 1933 with a cover date of January 1934. A press release announcing the magazine appeared in August 1933, but did not receive much interest.

In 1940, business was good enough for Kalmbach to launch another magazine about railroads in general with the simple title of Trains Magazine. From its first issue dated November 1940, it grew quickly from an initial circulation of just over 5,000.

Kalmbach became exclusively a publisher when it discontinued its printing operations in 1973, opting to contract production from other printers.[3]

In 1985, Kalmbach purchased AstroMedia Corporation, adding its four magazines: Astronomy, Deep Sky, the children's science magazine Odyssey and Telescope Making.[4] [5]

Kalmbach began publishing its annual Great Model Railroads in November 1990.[6]

In 1991, Kalmbach purchased Greenberg Publishing of Sykesville, Maryland. Also included in the purchase was Greenberg Shows, which sponsored nearly two dozen combined model railroad and doll house shows on the East Coast.[7] Intending to focus on the adult hobby and leisure market, Kalmbach sold the publication rights of the children's science magazine Odyssey to Cobblestone Publishing of Peterborough, New Hampshire in September 1991.[8]

In January 1992, Kalmbach began publishing Earth magazine.[9][10]

Kalmbach purchased Discover Media, publisher of the science magazine Discover, in August 2010.[11]

Gerald B. Boettcher, the company's president, retired in June 2012.[12] Charles R. Croft became the new president. [13]

In 2016 Kalmbach acquired Rather Dashing Games, a board game company based near Lexington, Kentucky.[14] In 2018 the company sold the board game company to Loren and Heather Coleman, owners of game publisher Catalyst Game Labs.[15] According to the Rather Dashing Games website, the company is now a division of Catalyst Game Labs.[16]

In 2017 the company hired digital media veteran Dan Hickey as its sixth chief executive officer.[17] Hickey was the first Kalmbach leader hired from outside the company in its 84-year history. The company was renamed Kalmbach Media in 2018.[18]

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Lexington, Kentucky

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The company also produces some annual publications.

In addition, it publishes numerous books, including the Tourist Trains Guidebook. An illustrated compendium of more than 450 tourist railroads, dinner trains, and rail museums in the U.S. and Canada, the 300-page guidebook's 2009 edition provides reviews by Trains magazine staff and contributors.[20] It was the original publisher of Jim Scribbins' The Hiawatha Story in 1970.

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Model Railroader

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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 Kalmbach Media of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Commonly found on newsstands and in libraries, it promotes itself as the oldest magazine of its type in the United States, although it is the long-standing competitor to Railroad Model Craftsman, which - originally named The Model Craftsman - predates MR by one year.

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Source: "Kalmbach Media", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmbach_Media.

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References
  1. ^ Kalmbach Publishing. "Charles R. Croft named President".
  2. ^ "Kalmbach Media Co. | Better Business Bureau® Profile". www.bbb.org. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  3. ^ Day, Dan (March 11, 1982). "Hobby magazine turns into big business". Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via NewspaperArchive.
  4. ^ Eicher, David J. (April 9, 2013). "Astronomy magazine: 40 years and counting". Astronomy.com. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  5. ^ "Longtime Kalmbach President Jim King dies". Kalmbach Media. July 27, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  6. ^ "Kalmbach Publishing Co". The Business Journal-Milwaukee. November 12, 1990. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via Gale General Reference Center GOLD.
  7. ^ "Kalmbach Publishing Co". The Business Journal-Milwaukee. American City Business Journals. January 28, 1991. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via Gale General OneFile.
  8. ^ "Kalmbach Publishing Co". The Business Journal-Milwaukee. American City Business Journals. September 9, 1991. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via Gale General Reference Center GOLD.
  9. ^ "Earth". Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management. October 1, 1991. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via Gale General Reference Center Gold.
  10. ^ "Magazine Covers the Earth For Those Who Live On It". Orlando Sentinel. December 31, 1991. ProQuest 278007990.
  11. ^ Mickey, Bill (August 5, 2010). "Kalmbach to Buy Discover Media". Folio. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  12. ^ Trains (Kalmbach Publishing). Vol. 70 (no. 1). January 2010.
  13. ^ Kalmbach Publishing. "Charles R. Croft named President".
  14. ^ "Kalmbach expands reach with acquisition of Rather Dashing Games".
  15. ^ "ACD News". www.acdd.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  16. ^ "About Us". Rather Dashing Games. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  17. ^ Daykin, Tom (September 6, 2017). "Waukesha-based Kalmbach Publishing appoints Dan Hickey as new CEO". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  18. ^ Guaglione, Sara (May 17, 2018). "Kalmbach Media Rebrands, Introduces Print Magazine From Paid Video Product". Publishers Daily. MediaPost. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  19. ^ "Bead&Button Show and Magazine to Close Permanently". Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  20. ^ Wrinn, Jim, ed. (2009). Tourist Trains Guidebook. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-87116-273-1.
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