imagine a city inhospitable to humans not because it caters to cars, but because it caters to trains.
The North Pole in The Polar Express is a massive industrial complex that runs far deeper than is shown on-screen. This fucked up little railway turntable at the intersection of several pitch-black underground tunnel, completely abandoned, impossibly massive structures which sheets of frozen ice wrap around, as if to imply they ever could be running water. The children have to tiptoe across a thin metal rail over an impossibly deep chasm. This scene stressed me the Fuck Out as a kid. The North Pole isn't a cozy little workshop, it's an incomprehensibly huge place not meant for you or me, it's meant for elves, trains, 24/7 Christmas music, and that's just about it.
