inside, they find a dirt-walled room with a shovel. no freight trains pass through this station as it is designed to handle only passenger trains. together, the two stores occupied most of the upper level. each eleven-minute segment in each episode (except for the first three episodes) begins with verbal instructions to listen for two words that will be used throughout the plot of that episode. "farther up the road" or "further on up the road" is a blues song first recorded in 1957 by bobby "blue" bland. his younger brother was the opera singer, . 