Although my layout is pretty much freelanced based on the old NYC/PC west of downtown Cincinnati along the Ohio River, one industry is actually there: Monsanto Chemical. The other industries are fictional, but do represent some of the industries you did find in the area.
The local run is based supposedly out of Riverside yard which was a good size yard of the NYC/PC in I believe the suburb of Sedamsville, west of downtown Cincinnati. As i recall reading, Riverside saw the last of NYC steam power in the Cincinnati area in 1957. Sedamsville was also the boyhood home of Pete Rose for those baseball fans out there.
When I was little my father had a cousin that lived out along US Route 50 better known as River Road about two blocks west of Riverside yard, so always loving trains you can imagine where I hung out at when we visited!
Below is a photo I found on the internet quite some time ago of Riverside yard in NYC days, photographer unknown:
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