Caption: I remember coming home from school and getting a phone call from a friend saying that I needed to get down to the station immediately. My first thought was that there were possibly some CN detours over the Guelph Subdivision, however he informed me that the old CN boxcars across from the station were being prepared to be scrapped on site that afternoon. A short drive later and the scene was as expected, with big equipment from London-based John Zubick making quick work of each boxcar. For as long as I was a kid, those boxcars had been a part of the railway scene in Kitchener and were used as storage by local CN maintenance of way workers and carmen. While taking in the scene as each boxcar was systematically sheared open by the equipment and turned into pieces, one such memory comes to mind. As the excavator dug deep into one of the boxcars it removed an almost pristine wooden CNR railway crossing sign still attached to its post that had been long stored inside. Within seconds…chomp, chomp chomp. Even after three decades, remembering that still stings a little. Here, CN 519983 meets its fate across from the Kitchener station. While this one had the CN noodle, several of the other boxcars scrapped that day had their original CN maple leaf logos.