whistle-stop

Nobody had to explain to him that the two Gestapo agents had boarded the train at that whistle stop.

Seventy-five miles south of Chicago there is a whistle-stop called Shipmont.

Lansdale was too small even to be called a "whistle stop," because no trains came near it.

Why should he hang around this whistle stop for a wasted week-end, holding kitchen conversations with the unmighty living?