Pentrex Media Group, LLC, is an American producer and seller of railfan-related

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Pentrex. Retrieved 2010-03-21. The company discontinued the sale of VHS video tapes on July 31, 2009. Until 1999, Pentrex also published

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s, and its magazine editorial offices were located in Waukesha,

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. It continues to sell books and back issues of its defunct magazines, but no longer publishes any. In August 1993, the company acquired

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Interurban Press Interurban Press was a small, privately owned American publishing company, specializing in books about streetcars, other forms of rail transit and railroads in North America, from 1943MacDougall, Kent (May 19, 1983). "Books Ring Bell With Devotees ...

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, in business since the 1940s. Initially, Pentrex continued publication of books and all of the magazines it had acquired from Interurban Press, but these were gradually phased out, as the company concentrated on production and sales of videos and, later, DVDs. The last magazines published by Pentrex were ''

RailNews ''Railnews'' is a national monthly newspaper and news website for the British railway network. Content ''Railnews'' concentrates on issues important to employees of the railway industry, such as investment, careers, changes to industry struct ...

'' (ISSN 1091-2436) (formerly '' Pacific RailNews'', ) and ''Vintage Rails'', the final issues of which were those dated August 1999 and September/October 1999, respectively. Pentrex also published '' Passenger Train Journal'' (ISSN 0160-6913) until 1996 and ''Locomotive & Railway Preservation'' magazine (ISSN 0891-7647) until 1997. ''Passenger Train Journal'' resumed publication in late 2006, with a new publisher, White River Productions. In 2007, the Midwest Book Review's "Wisconsin Bookwatch" recommended Pentrex as "the premier producer of railroading documentaries showcasing and highlight the trains and rail systems, the routes and histories, their engines, equipment, bridges, and more".The Railroading Shelf
Wisconsin Bookwatch, Volume 2, Number 6, June 2007 On April 7, 2017, the company merged with Highball Productions and moved from Pasadena to

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