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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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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.

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

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…and I have an almost complete set I would be willing to sell.

Only some of the last issues are missing.

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I have to correct myself: The name of that last finescale book is “Logging, Mining, and Industrial Annual”