it originally was a mimeographed leaflet by dean lewis of castro valley, california, and later was published by david styffe in southern california; hyrail productions of denver, colorado; then hundman publishing, of edmonds, washington. the editor until the july 2005 issue was dale sanders. from august 2005 until the final issue, the magazine was edited by author paul d. schneider. mark w. hemphill (later editor of "trains" magazine), then rail photographer brian rutherford, were production editors for many years.