"but a train in a small town is often just a tiny one-room building next to a track that comes out of barren wilderness and leads back into barren wilderness" <- You are right on with that!
Years ago, trying to get between from Yamaguchi to Tsuwano in Japan I didn't pick the right train (for me and my mother) and we got left to await another train that would come later. The sun seems to go down earlier in Japan (and rise earlier on the other end), so it started getting a bit creepier than I was ready to deal with...
On one side of the train lines were a few farm houses and on the other was a tiny parking lot for the station. We've since traveled back through that area, but I wasn't even sure I wanted to know what tiny station we'd stopped at those years ago.
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Years ago, trying to get between from Yamaguchi to Tsuwano in Japan I didn't pick the right train (for me and my mother) and we got left to await another train that would come later. The sun seems to go down earlier in Japan (and rise earlier on the other end), so it started getting a bit creepier than I was ready to deal with...
On one side of the train lines were a few farm houses and on the other was a tiny parking lot for the station. We've since traveled back through that area, but I wasn't even sure I wanted to know what tiny station we'd stopped at those years ago.