Most of the employees in the classification yard had already left for the night, and it was empty aside from those loading and unloading the freight trains.
In the night, the deputy manager led Charlie and Merlin to a rail check not far from the management office, where the freight train coming from Duca Mines was detached, and the freight carriages would sit there for the night.
Charlie stood aside, waiting for the driver to stop before invading his mind and investigating the train manifest.
Soon, a train horn was heard in the distance, and a few minutes later, the freight train loaded with phosphate slowly entered the station.
The deputy manager had brought his walkie-talkie and barked orders until the train steered into the platform where it was supposed to stop.
Dozens of technicians and other workers responsible for detaching the carriages or unloading were already waiting there. Once the train stopped, the technicians worked to decouple the train, while others began to unloa