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In 2020, the tourist attraction was closed due to Coronavirus restrictions leaving visitors only allowed to outside but not go in for the whistle-stop tour.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Elections follow technology from newspapers to Teddy Roosevelt’s whistle-stop train tours, radio addresses, newsreels and sweaty Richard Nixon vs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

And he prevented Mr. Trump from running up the score in the conservative, rural areas that span much of the state, partly with old-fashioned efforts like a whistle-stop Amtrak tour of western Pennsylvania.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

The project was inspired by Segal’s personal experience organizing a whistle-stop campaign tour for Republican U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

They was big enough for a station, but not much bigger than what we called a whistle-stop.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2017

After all, coastal hamlets, mountaintop villages, and desert whistle-stops have inspired American artists for generations, among them, the Impressionists of Connecticut’s Old Lyme Colony and the minimalist installation artists who more recently gentrified Marfa.

From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015

Before long, Ms. Raimondo has been cautioning in whistle-stops here and across the state, that figure will climb perilously toward 20 cents.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011

At whistle-stops across the country, similar scenes were played out last week as candidates for the Nov. 16 national elections revved campaign machinery into high gear.

From Time Magazine Archive

We went through all of Mississippi with just some short whistle-stops.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Riding a red train, he whistle-stopped the country defending workers and exhorting voters to support him.

From US News ● Jun. 8, 2016

He whistle-stopped through Bavaria and Hesse, speaking from the back platform of his train.

From Time Magazine Archive

Near the end of the campaign, Republican Presidential Candidate Dwight Eisenhower whistle-stopped through Arizona; Barry had pictures of himself and Ike plastered across the state.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Harry Truman in 1948, he whistle-stopped through Ohio and motored across eastern Pennsylvania, giving as much hell as he had earlier absorbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides last week's whistle-stopping, both girls have appeared regularly at weekend political rallies and cookouts all over the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paris-trained Nancy Kefauver, 52, has always preferred painting to politics, and her whistle-stopping smiles were only surface-deep during the quarter century in which Estes Kefauver held first a House, then a Senate seat from Tennessee.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What's the word for this trip?" asked newsmen of Harry Truman as he for three days of whistle-stopping in New England and New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the old-fashioned whistle stop did not seem the right way to campaign in streamlined 1952, there was far more whistle-stopping and more public response to it than ever before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nixon has zigzagged 18,000 miles across the state, most recently whistle-stopping from Santa Cruz to San Diego in a "Victory Special" train.

From Time Magazine Archive


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