Following His Own Track

Johnson and a friend decided to publish a magazine about trains and model railroading for fellow enthusiasts. Working with local print shops planted the seed for a career in printing. So Johnson obtained a printing technology certificate at the Philadelphia Offset Printing School and started his own business in the basement of his parents' Ambler, Pa., home. A year later, his parents moved to California (where Johnson's family is from originally), so he relocated into a storefront in Oreland, Pa. For 10 years he ran Crusader Printing for hobby-related publications, mostly about trains. But, ultimately, Crusader went bankrupt in 1988.