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News column - 1
May 2013:
The latest model railroad products, news & events
by Richard Bale and Jeff Shultz
Michael Stephens 1953-2013
Michael Stephens, who served as a senior
executive for several important model
railroad firms, died April 9 at his home
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was 59.
Michael’s exposure to trains and model
railroading came early. During the 1950s
and early 1960s, his father, Hugh, was vice
president of sales at Kalmbach Publishing
Company. During his high school years,
Michael worked at Amro Ltd., an importer of
European model trains founded by his father. Before leaving for
college, Michael took a job at Kalmbach as a researcher on the
publisher’s Airliners International magazine. Following gradu-
ation from the University of Milwaukee, Michael spent several
years in the field of advertising before rejoining Kalmbach in
1998 as the firm’s vice president of marketing – essentially the
same position held by his father 40 years earlier.
