MODEL RAILROADER MAGAZINE BOUND VOLUME #17 FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1950 900+PAGES

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Offered for auction is an
ORIGINAL SUCKERT TYPE BOUND VOLUME #17 MODEL RAILROADER MAGAZINES DATED 1950 - FEBRUARY THRU DECEMBER -  PUBLISHED BY KALAMBACH PUBLISHING CO., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
The Model Railroader Magazines as noted above were published by Kalmbach Publishing Co., A Suckert Type hardcover is used to bind the 12 months Model Railroader Magazines, however in this instance it was used to bind an 11 Month set of magazines as noted above. The 900 plus pages of the magazines appear to be in very good condition.  They appear clean, some minor toning as would be expected for magazines 67 years old.  There appear to be  no damp stains.
The BOUND MAGAZINES BOOKLET IS  SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED.
Below additional information on the Kalmbach Co and the Model Railroader Magazine:
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 Publishing 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.
MR is considered to be a general-interest hobby magazine, appealing to a wide range of hobbyists, rather than specializing in a particular scale, or facet of the hobby (such as prototype operations or scratch building and kitbashing). Model Railroader covers a variety of scales and modeling techniques for engines, rolling stock, right-of-way, structures, and scenery. It reviews products including ready-to-run models as well as kits, tools and supplies. The magazine presents blueprints and photographs of prototype equipment, as well as photographs of models and layouts.
A longstanding philosophy of modeling is manifest in its editorial features of layout design and operation, in which the model is viewed as a three-dimensional and temporal compression of the real world, so that, for example, the motive power, freight, trackage and scenery of a real-world railroad are formed into a layout which captures the spirit of not only the equipment and region of the railroad but also its purpose and how it operates.
The Model Railroader 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. The bank refused to loan Kalmbach any money, many felt sorry for him, and a few told him he was crazy. His first wife, Bernice, herself a journalist, encouraged and helped Al put The Model Railroader together. Though they originally saw it as a sideline business to their commercial printing operations, soon they were devoting seven days a week to the venture.
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