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The greater Cincinnati area on the layout consists of eight separate
switching districts. These districts include the Ford transmission
plant on the east side of Cincinnati, the produce yards and sup-
porting infrastructure that existed down along the river front, the
Eggleston Avenue district adjacent to downtown Cincinnati on the
east side, and various industries on the near west side.
All of the switching districts are worked by separate local
crews during an operating session. In addition to the switch-
ing districts, transfer runs from the B&O, Conrail, L&N, N&W,
Southern and the Licking River Terminal Railroad come into
Cincinnati from staging the during operating session and then
return at the end of the session.
Across the river from Cincinnati is Newport, KY. This area
runs along two walls of the basement and is reached via a
13. A view of some of the business in Newport, KY above Yard
A of the Newport Steel complex.
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long bridge that crosses the aisle from Cincinnati. The bridge
and the steel mill are loosely modeled after the L&N bridge in
Cincinnati that crossed the river to Newport, and the Newport
Steel mill complex on the Licking River, a small tributary of
the Ohio River. The focal point of this area is the large Newport
Steel Division of Davies Steel Corp. The mill complex consists of
a blast furnace, pipe mill, slab caster, coil mill, coke plant, coke
by-products plant, and a scrap yard. Behind the steel mill are
three staging tracks that represent the L&N. Transfer runs cross
the large bridge on their way back and forth to Cincinnati.
V&O interchange
Heading east from Undercliff Yard, the main line runs through
a number of small communities. At Milford there are several
14. Eastbound train 332, which originated at Bedford, IN, overtakes
#116 on the Great Miami River Bridge just west of St. Joe Yard.
