One board

My dad had to clear some stuff out of his basement and one of those things was my old train board, which had been used since then as a storage space.  He had to chop it into chunks to bring it over (I needed the boards for something else), but I was able to look over my old setups.  On one side, he set it up for me upstairs as a little kid, I drew on that, played with Matchbox cars, etc.  When it was in the basement and I was maybe 5 or 6 my uncles set up a loop of track with a siding and a bridge over a bay.  I still have most of the buildings that my dad built for it and the Chessie System engine from a set.  Unseen in between, on the other side of the plywood, was another attempt from middle school that never got much beyond track and some buildings.  I didn't have the resources or ability to do more then.  As a teenager a friend and I got a piece of homasote, attached it on, and built another layout. It ran better than the last, I was able to do more this time, some passing sidings and more industries.  It was cool to see these old projects, realizing I really hadn't forgotten them, and how much the lessons learned played into the current project.  I thought about how much we made out of that one 4x8 sheet of plywood, it's almost as old as I am.

As for the current layout, I'm working on the industrial trackage for the steel mill area.  And finding out that things don't fit as well as you intended, but making the best of it.