RE: [CBQ] E-1s

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Nolen and All:
 
Thanks for the kind remarks; I'll try to keep the stuff coming.
 
As for O.H. Means, I really know very little about him except that he was, as you say, an early railfan photographer.  He lived in Rock Island and photographed regularly there and in Galesburg, but also as far south as Beardstown.  He also made a trip or two out to Denver.  The earliest photo I've seen credited to him is from 1913, making him a real contemporary of Otto Perry.  I do have a 1906 photo of a 4-4-2 at Ottumwa that's credited to him, but it may be someone else's photo from Means' collection.  But I haven't seen any Means photos later than the early 1930s.  He did trade prints with Otto Perry, so the Denver Public Library has a large number of his prints in their Otto Perry trade file.  And the Corbin collection has a print file dedicated to Means prints.  Means also had a big collection of early Q photos he had acquired from others, many dating back to the 1860s-70s.  That's all I know about him.
 
Hol
 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:28:47 -0500
Subject: RE: [CBQ] E-1s

 

Hol,

 

I've enjoyed all the E-1 discussion.  It does bring to mind a question that has caused me minor interest for many years.  Who was O.H. Means?  He was obviously a very early railfan as I've seen several photos attributed to him over the years.  Do you have any knowledge of him?

 

Nolen

Hope all this is of interest to at least some members of the group.
 
Hol  
 

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