Kalmbach Publishing

Kalmbach Publishing

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Founded	1934
Founder	Al C. Kalmbach
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Key people	Charles R. Croft
Publication types	Books, magazines
Nonfiction topics	Hobbies, trains, crafts, model railroading, autos, drones, astronomy, snowmobiles.
Number of employees	275
Official website	www.kalmbach.com

Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related. It is now located in nearby Waukesha, Wisconsin. The company's magazine titles include:

• American Snowmobiler
• Art Jewelry
• Astronomy
• Bead & Button
• Bead Style
• Classic Toy Trains Magazine
• Classic Trains Magazine
• Discover
• Drone 360
• Fine Scale Modeler Magazine
• Garden Railways
• Model Railroader (its first periodical)
• Model Retailer
• Scale Auto
• Trains (its second periodical)

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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. It was the original publisher of Jim Scribbins' The Hiawatha Story in 1970.

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

See also

• List of English language book publishing companies