whistle stop
Minor railway station
A whistle stop is a small town, especially one where trains stop only on signal rather than by schedule.
The term evokes rural America—places barely significant enough to warrant a pause.
A whistle-stop tour or campaign involves brief appearances in many small towns in succession: The candidate's whistle-stop tour through the Midwest.
- train stationPassenger boarding facility for locomotives
- depotVehicle storage facility
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- visitTrip to see another
- barnstormTour performing or campaigning
hustings · campaign · stump · politics · stationmaster · halt · branch line · Harry Truman · press the flesh · meet and greet · way station · locomotive · crossing gate · rail junction · local train · milk run · passenger rail · steam engine
- historic railwayssteam locomotive, steam train, steam engine, heritage railway, railway museum
- train termsall aboard, engine, departure time, arrival time, passenger car
- train traveltrain, railway, fare, tracks, rail
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- small townssmall town, hamlet, town, village, settlement
- political tacticscampaigning, gerrymandering, filibuster, campaigns, voter suppression
whistle stopmain station
Primary transit hub
central station · terminus · hub · union station · terminal
whistle stopmetropolis
Large important city
megalopolis · major city · urban center · big city · metropolitan area
stop, stopped, whistle, stopping, nonstop, stops, whistling, stoppage, whistles