Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American

United States

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 publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related. It is now located in nearby Waukesha

Waukesha, Wisconsin

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, Wisconsin. The company's magazine titles include:

• Astronomy
  Astronomy (magazine)
  Astronomy is a monthly American magazine about astronomy. Targeting amateur astronomers for its readers, it contains columns on sky viewing, reader-submitted astrophotographs, and articles on astronomy and astrophysics that are readable by nonscientists....
  
  
• Bead & Button Magazine
• Birder's World
• Cabin Life
  Cabin Life
  Cabin Life Magazine founded in April 2001, is a nationally distributed award winning magazine focused on the vacation home lifestyle for cabins, cottages, lakehomes and lodges....
  
  
• Classic Toy Trains Magazine
• Classic Trains Magazine
• Discover
  Discover (magazine)
  Discover is an American science magazine that publishes articles about science for a general audience. The monthly magazine was launched in October 1980 by Time Inc. It was sold to Family Media, the owners of Health, in 1987. Walt Disney Company bought the magazine when Family Media went out of...
  
  
• Fine Scale Modeler Magazine
• Model Railroader
  Model Railroader
  Model Railroader is an American magazine specializing in the hobby of model railroading. It was founded in 1934 by Al C. Kalmbach and is based in Waukesha, Wisconsin. It is published monthly by Kalmbach Publishing...
  
   (its first periodical)
• Trains
  Trains (magazine)
  Trains is a monthly magazine dedicated to trains and railroads, and is one of the two flagship publications of Kalmbach Publishing. The magazine is read both by railroad enthusiasts, commonly referred to as railfans, and those within the railroad industry....
  
   (its second periodical)
• The Writer
  The Writer
  The Writer is a monthly magazine for writers published by the Kalmbach Publishing Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin. It was first established by William H. Hills and Robert Luce, two Boston Globe reporters, as "a monthly magazine to interest and help all literary workers", in April 1887. Until the...
  
  

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.

Gerald B. Boettcher is the company's president, as of December 2009.

See also

• List of English language book publishing companies