Joe Fugate

Joe D. Fugate, Sr. is a writer and game designer who has written on model railroading topics and has worked on role-playing games. Fugate is the founder and publisher of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine (MRH).

Career Joe D. Fugate, Sr. and Gary Thomas founded the company Digest Group Publications (DGP) in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working as editors at other jobs. Fugate wrote articles for the digest-sized magazine The Traveller's Digest that DGP published, and these articles got the attention of Marc Miller from Game Designers' Workshop, who invited Fugate and Thomas to work on expanding and revising their material for GDW; as a result they produced Traveller Book 8: Robots (1986) for Traveller, which began a years-long working relationship between GDW and DGP.

Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine started as a quarterly publication in 2009, went to bimonthly in 2010, and since 2011 has been a monthly publication running over 100 pages per issue. As of 2015, MRH reports that it has about 30,000 subscribers.