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Carl A. Swanson

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History, Nonfiction

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December 2012

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Carl Swanson is the editor of Kalmbach Media Company's Model Railroader magazine. He has worked at Trains magazine and Classic Toy Trains magazine. He is the author of the Kalmbach book "Faces of Railroading" and "Lost Milwaukee" and "Historic Milwaukee Crimes" from The History Press. He also contributed essays to Belt Publishing's 2019 "The Milwaukee Anthology" and "The Milwaukee River Greenway" (River Revitalization Foundation, 2021).

Carl was the founding editor of Pentrex Publishing's RailNews magazine and served as editor of Passenger Train Journal magazine prior to joining Kalmbach in 1997.

Carl studied journalism at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and photography at the Woodland School of Photography. He lives in Milwaukee with ...more

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	Lost Milwaukee 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FACES OF RAILROADING: Portraits of America's greatest industry 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historic Milwaukee Crimes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Command Control for Toy Trains, Second Edition by Neal Besougloff, Carl A. Swanson (Goodreads Author) (Revised) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars