Ray Dunakin Yes, Finescale Railroader started in 1991 as "Outdoor Railroader". The name changed in '97. A few years ago, the magazine was discontinued and replaced by a series of annuals: The Narrow Gauge Annual, the Modeler's Annual, and the Industrial and Short Line Annual.
Yes, Finescale Railroader started in 1991 as "Outdoor Railroader". The name changed in '97. A few years ago, the magazine was discontinued and replaced by a series of annuals: The Narrow Gauge Annual, the Modeler's Annual, and the Industrial and Short Line Annual.
I have to correct myself: The name of that last finescale book is "Logging, Mining, and Industrial Annual"
......and I have an almost complete set I would be willing to sell.
Only some of the last issues are missing.
Best wishes,Tony Walsham (Remote Control Systems) http://www.rcs-rc.comModern technology. Old fashioned reliability.
Outdoor Railroader/Finescale Railroader, and the current annuals, were/are published by Westlake Publishing, and they have an excellent forum devoted to top quality, finescale modeling:
Finescale RR Forums
Dear Magazine Historians!
Somebody just gave me volume one from 1997, six issues, of "Finescale Railroader Including Outdoor Railroader."
What do I have? Are these the premier issues of a combination of two magazines? When did "Finescale Railroader" start? And does it have anything to do with "Finescale Modeller"? Wasn't somebody named Ron Hundley or something like that the one-man publisher of "Finescale Modeller" or "Railroad Modeller?"
I'm not finding a lot of information on search engines about this, so I'm thinking somebody might know here.
Thanks.
p.s.....just to correct myself, I think I was thinking of "Mainline Modeller"
p.s.s.........I am told that "Outdoor Railroader" started in 1991.
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Denver, Colorado
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