Model Railroad Hobbyist

To learn more about Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine, click here . Joe Fugate is the founder, publisher, and editor of Model Railroad Hobbyist (MRH) magazine. Joes been a model railroader since the late 1960s and is a published model railroad author. Joe has a rich background in web software development, publishing, and video production Model Railr... oad Hobbyist is just the latest of his hobby media projects. Joe's HO Siskiyou Line layout, a pioneering mushroom benchwork configuration, was first discussed in depth by Joe in the January and February 1997 issues of Model Railroader magazine. Joe's also helped popularize the use of auto tail light bulbs for short management on DCC layouts. Eric Hansmann is Editor-at-Large of MRH. Eric has been model railroading since the mid-1970s. He built his first HO scale layout following a John Armstrong plan in an Atlas track plan book. Eric has had articles published in the Layout Design Journal, Model Railroad Hobbyist, Model Railroad Planning, and Railroad Model Craftsman. He has worked in radio, printing, college recruitment, marketing and has owned a retail record store. Eric was consumed by the narrow gauge bug for several years but settled into HO scale prototype modeling, focusing on the mid-1920s. He built a 10x16 HO scale B&O Wheeling Freight Terminal that offered a different pace of operations. He is now focused on designing, building, and operating a new layout inspired by a forgotten B&O branch in Pittsburgh. He posts regular hobby activity updates to his blog, http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/ Marty McGuirk is a contributing editor to MRH. Marty got into model railroading in the late 1970s when he saw his first issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. Marty has worked in the hobby industry off and on, and is a well-published model railroad author. Marty has been an editor for Kalmbach on Classic Toy Trains and Model Railroader, and was the VP of Product Development for Intermountain Railway Company from 2001-2005. Marty's an avid Central Vermont fan, modeling the ...Read More