A day at Honda Marysville: the first of growing non-union transplants

Neal Howard, 49, has worked at Honda Marysville Plant for 19 years. A former bank supervisor, he works on vehicle front-end assembly.

Rush hour. Associates leave Honda Marysville Plant at the of the 3 PM shift.

Merrill Eggleston, 59, has worked at the Honda Marysville Plant for 32 years. He works in the weld shop.

The Honda Marysville Plant sprawls across 260 acres northwest of Columbus.

Brenda Harrison, 59, has worked at Honda Marysville Plant for 12 years. She assembles doors.

The Honda Marysville Plant makes teh Honda Accord sedan (foreground) and CR-V SUV. Once the best-selling car in America, the Accord has dropped in sales while the CR-V has become Honda's best-seller.

Brittany Mowry, 26, has worked at Honda Marysville Plant since 2011. The Marysville resident started as a temp and now is a full-time associate assembling seats.

Rush hour. Workers exit the Honda Marysville Plant onto Ohio-33 at 3.30 PM Tuesday.

Trucks are everywhere in Marysville supplying the Honda Marysville Plant, suppliers - and, in this case, transporting new vehicles.

Union County Commissioner Steve Stolte first surveyed the land for Honda's Maryville plant in 1977 as an engineer.

A Honda CR-V cruises Main Street Marysville.

In addition to Honda Marysville Plant, Honda has a number of assembly plants across Ohio including the Honda Performance Center in Marysville that produces Acura's $160k supercar, the NSX.

Honda has transformed the town of Marysville, Ohio - and Union and Logan counties - north of Columbus. A Honda Pilot sits in front of the historic Union County Courthouse.

The Honda Credit Union outside Marysville assembly plant.

The Honda Marysville Plant produced its first car in 1982 -the 1983 model year Accord sedan.

Happy birthday. Honda's Elsinore motorcycle was the first vehicle assembled in Marysville 40 years ago in 1979.

At the Honda Heritage Center across from the Honda Marysville Plant, Honda displays the myriad engines and products that it produces including the Acura NSX supercar (foreground).

The huge Honda Marysville Plant parallels Ohio Route 33 west of Marysville.

Honda has earned community goodwill by funding local projects like the sprawling Marysville YMCA.