Title	Train wreck in Vancouver
Creator	John Wager
Description	Train wreck in East Vancouver with civilian and uniformed personnel in March of 1942. Fred C. Wager was born in Minnesota on September 24, 1879. He worked for the Great Northern Railroad and was certified as engineer in 1901. He married Nellie Bates in 1906 and had one daughter, Elva Florence Wager Frink (1908-2000). Fred transferred to The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway when it started operations and later became Mechanical Superintendent, a job he held until retirement in 1958. He worked for the SP&S until he retired in 1958 and he passed away on January 7, 1961. John H. Wager was born in Spokane on July 18, 1916 and found work on a track gang at the SP&S in 1937. He was soon able to move to the job of Oiler, Hostler and Fireman in 1940, finally being promoted to Engineer in June 1945. Wager worked in that capacity until his retirement in 1979. In 1948, he bought a Speed-Graphic 4X5 press camera, took photography classes at Clark College and helped form the Film Pack Camera Club of Vancouver. He added 35 mm cameras later and took color slides and prints. Railroad scenes were among his favorite subjects. When he died on September 12, 2000, he left thousands of photos, negatives and slides as well as memorabilia.
Date	1942
Subject	People; Wager; Railroads; Railroad locomotives; Disasters; Train wrecks; Railroad accidents; SP&S
Type	Photographs
Coverage	United States--Washington (State)--Clark County
Collection Source	Clark County Historical Museum Photographs
Object Identifier	P48.23
Accession Number	2015.27
Catalog Number	2015.27.46
Repository	Clark County Historical Museum; http://www.cchmuseum.org
Relation	John Wager Collection; SP&S
Contributors	Washington State University Vancouver Library; http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/
Project Identifier	cchm14657.tif
Physical Description	3.5 x 2.5 in.
Format	Original images were scanned as 600 dpi TIFF files on an EPSON Expression 11000XL scanner. 100 dpi JPEG files were then added to the CONTENT database at the WSU Libraries.
Rights	To request a copy and permission to use this image, contact the Clark County Historical Museum at 1511 Main Street, Vancouver WA 98660 360.993.5679 or visit www.cchmuseum.org.