As a carman my father spent much of his railway career at derailments -- right up until he retired early from Canadian National in 1980. An avid photographer, he took very few pictures of trains but captured these shots of a main line wreck near Jasper, Alberta. The year is probably 1947 when he spent six months in Jasper, away from Edmonton, near the end of his five-year apprenticeship. He would later move to Jasper, where I was born, and then to Port Mann, where I would become a carman shortly before he retired. My father, Howard, can be seen in the middle of the first two photographs.