Whistle-stop train tour

A whistle stop or whistle-stop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time.

The definition of the term derives from the practice of a small, occasionally used railway station signaling a train so the engineer will know to stop.

The Magellan's last official trip before retirement was in 1954, when first lady Mamie Eisenhower rode it from Washington, D.C., to Groton, Connecticut, to christen the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus.

The green campaigning tour was a part of the Prince's Start initiative that aimed to build public awareness of sustainable activities.

In 2009, for example, German chancellor (and CDU candidate) Angela Merkel made a highly publicized tour in Konrad Adenauer's old campaign train.

Map of Truman's 1948 whistle-stop tour from 6 September to 5 November 1948.
Early 20th-century photograph of a whistle-stop speech at the train station in Putnam, Connecticut