Here's a really cool animation of a cell that some students at Harvard made. They took some artistic liberties, but it's overall pretty accurate. I especially like the little motor protein that is shown dragging a (relatively) huge vesicle along a microtubule. It's thought that's exactly how it works. I know some people at UChicago who study single motor proteins, and they're capable of exerting amazingly high forces to move large cargoes through the cell.
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/searchlist/6850.html
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