Road and Rail Cargo Center - Interior

The first floor houses the cargo distribution system.  On the right, trains are unloaded and cargo is transferred to the dark-gray conveyer belt. From here, cargo travels to the orange, elevator platform on the rear-right.  This elevator takes the cargo to the second floor for short-term storage.  Conversely, when cargo is ready to be shipped by truck, it comes down the elevator, travels to the end of the dark-gray conveyer belt, and then to the light-gray conveyer belt (picture bottom).  From here, it is manually loaded onto trucks. The gentleman in the dark-blue shirt, in the back-left of the photo staffs the consumer pickup counter.  For a "slight," extra fee, eager customers (such as LEGO consumers desirous of the latest LEGO sets), can pick up cargo directly at the cargo terminal, rather than waiting for its distribution by truck.
This photo shows the second floor, short-term storage area. The elevator shaft can be seen in the middle-right. Light-gray conveyer belts distribute cargo from the elevator to short-term holding areas.  Shorter-term storage is usually all that is necessary as trucks are generally available to distribute the cargo. Sometimes, there is too much cargo for short-term storage, and some cargo must be distributed to warehouses in the tower above.  Of course, this results in a "slight," extra fee to the original shipper.
Here, one sees the train control officer.  This person is responsible for directing the train while unloading cargo within the building. The clear panels (blurred) at the upper-left of the photograph are to protect workers from foul weather while unloading trains. .
To the right, one sees the train control room.  Here, workers direct trains coming into, and out of BrickTopia.
This picture shows the MIS department, along with their Mindstorms, 8-bit, super-computer. This computer runs all operations in the facility. The gentleman in red is currently typing in a program change.  Based on a casual suggestion from management, the program includes a "bug" that will lower the short term cargo capacity threshold, pushing more cargo into long-term storage.  As one may note from above descriptions, this has an "unfortunate" side effect of requiring numerous, "slight," additional charges to suppliers.

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