If you look at aerial photos, the Cast Member Guidemap, or take tours - you'll realize how many buildings there are on property that nobody knows about! I am amazed!
First, right behind the MK are several buildings. The Train, Bus and Monorail Garage and Maintenance Facility is just behind the park, to the east a bit. If you follow the spur of train track back, you go right into it. You first pass the Reedy Creek Resue Center. Then, there is also a bank of cooling towers that make the chilled water for the park A/C - next to the Central Energy Plant (Power Plant).
Further back to the north, there is a Day Care for Cast Members, Disney University, and a DOT Compliance Center.
To the east, there is a giant warehouse where they store, make and maintain all the Christmas Decorations for property (it's amazing inside). Next to that is Textile Services (laundry) and another warehouse. To the south is Central Shops, where they make and maintain everything, from rides to trams to characters to signs. It is absolutely HUGE and we spent about an hour in there on the tour!
There is a group of buildings north of Dixie Landings (POR). This Administration Neighborhood contains the telephone company, resort florist, supply house, another laundry center, construction and surveying offices, foods distribution, and the enormous merchandising warehouse.
The last group is just north of Animal Kingdom. There is the tree farm, where they keep 2 backups of every tree and bush on property. Then there are 3 facilities: RCID Material Recovery Facility (Sewage Treatment); Water Resource Facility (Water Purification and Pumping); and RCID Compost Facility (Giant pond where water lillies filter "#2" out of the sewage water and uses it for fertilization).
Just a few of the support building you don't see in your normal day-to-day vacation activities. Then there are the obvious buildings that house the rides, attractions and shops in the parks - decently hidden to give the guest the illusion that the rides are taking place in the part you see (Haunted Mansion).
Well, that's my contribution - hope someone learns something
First, right behind the MK are several buildings. The Train, Bus and Monorail Garage and Maintenance Facility is just behind the park, to the east a bit. If you follow the spur of train track back, you go right into it. You first pass the Reedy Creek Resue Center. Then, there is also a bank of cooling towers that make the chilled water for the park A/C - next to the Central Energy Plant (Power Plant).
Further back to the north, there is a Day Care for Cast Members, Disney University, and a DOT Compliance Center.
To the east, there is a giant warehouse where they store, make and maintain all the Christmas Decorations for property (it's amazing inside). Next to that is Textile Services (laundry) and another warehouse. To the south is Central Shops, where they make and maintain everything, from rides to trams to characters to signs. It is absolutely HUGE and we spent about an hour in there on the tour!
There is a group of buildings north of Dixie Landings (POR). This Administration Neighborhood contains the telephone company, resort florist, supply house, another laundry center, construction and surveying offices, foods distribution, and the enormous merchandising warehouse.
The last group is just north of Animal Kingdom. There is the tree farm, where they keep 2 backups of every tree and bush on property. Then there are 3 facilities: RCID Material Recovery Facility (Sewage Treatment); Water Resource Facility (Water Purification and Pumping); and RCID Compost Facility (Giant pond where water lillies filter "#2" out of the sewage water and uses it for fertilization).
Just a few of the support building you don't see in your normal day-to-day vacation activities. Then there are the obvious buildings that house the rides, attractions and shops in the parks - decently hidden to give the guest the illusion that the rides are taking place in the part you see (Haunted Mansion).
Well, that's my contribution - hope someone learns something
