  &nbsp;I was impressed with The Station Agent. I was even more impressed when I read that it was McCarthy's first screenplay. He definitely gets the award for the most well-rounded dwarf character in moviedom. But the best part of the movie is that it's really not about being too short--it's about trains.
And movement. And freedom. Escape...wanting to go somewhere else (anywhere else! ) and finding out that once you get there, it's very similar to the place you were running from. &nbsp; But everyone knows that trains (like blimps) are intrinsically cool. Your first flattened penny after the train rushes by. The sound of&nbsp;a train in the distance. Waving to the conductor. My grandparents had a flea market-type shop in Mobile called The Whistle Stop, because it was right next to the train tracks.
I rented a house right across train tracks for years in Gulfport. This movie made me want to go walk the tracks at night again. &nbsp; But I think I've been watching too much Trading Spaces because every time I looked at the train station I kept thinking, "Hey, that would be a cool place if he'd just fix it up a little. " And I kept imagining Olivia's paintings in my living room. 
