[3] Passenger Train Journal was founded in 1968 by Kevin McKinney,[1][4] who established the PTJ Publishing Company for the purpose.

[6] In 1993, Interurban Press was acquired by Pentrex,[7] which continued publishing PTJ until abruptly "suspending"[4] publication at the end of 1996.

[8] In 2006, Passenger Train Journal was resurrected by Kevin EuDaly of White River Productions, as a quarterly magazine.

[10] Kevin J. Holland succeeded Mike Schafer as PTJ editor in April 2022, effective with issue 292, Third Quarter 2022.

Holland had been on the magazine's editorial and design staff since its 2006 revival, serving for most of that time as Senior Editor.