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CTT names new editor

Published: Friday, May 18, 2007
Carl Swanson, a former member of the CLASSIC TOY TRAINS staff and previously a senior editor at Model Railroader, is the new editor of CTT. Carl replaces Neil Besougloff, who has become editor of Model Railroader.

Carl has spent three of his nine years at Kalmbach Publishing Co. on the staff of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS. He also worked at Trains magazine before joining Model Railroader's staff. He is the author of the Kalmbach book Faces of Railroading and was editor of the magazine Model Trains Step By Step. Carl was also the founding editor of RailNews magazine, and served as editor of Passenger Train Journal magazine prior to joining Kalmbach in 1997.

An avid model railroader, Carl has a 8-by-12 three-rail O gauge layout. Carl studied journalism at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and photography at the Woodland School of Photography. He lives in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood with his wife Judy, sons John and Daniel, and daughter Rachel. Welcome back, Carl.

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