Good, compact episode set in Fairbanks, Arizona, a dusty nondescript hamlet on the Sonora Shortline, a railroad serving regional mines. The Fairbanks depot is lonely & isolated, an inevitable target for numerous outlaw gangs after the hefty payrolls kept in the station's safe, including those dropped off by stagecoaches, which are frequently ambushed & robbed before they get to the depot. A number of deaths have resulted from all the criminal activity, leading also to the depot's loss of personnel who keep quitting due to totally inadequate pay, the constant life-threatening dangers, & lack of nearby law enforcement. The bosses back east in Boston believe the dangers have been exaggerated & ignore pleas for help from the Fairbanks depot staff---all of 2 people! The bosses offer no improvement in conditions or send out any support. Dennis Day does well in the role of a timid greenhorn sent to Fairbanks by one of the bosses who doesn't want the young man to marry his daughter, thinking the dangerous assignment will be the last they'll see of him. Day has a pleasant air & natural likeability. Despite his persona as an empty-headed dunce, though a fabulous singer, from the Jack Benny Show, still on the air when this episode appeared, Day plays it straight in "Way Station", proving he can act, without any hint of his Benny show character. Day had a comical countenance similar in nature to certain great comedians, such as Bob Hope & Jack Benny himself. Dennis Day, like the others, was fairly handsome, despite their smile-inducing visages. Of course, Day wasn't a joke-spewing comedian like Hope or Benny but rather a fine singer of a terrifically melodious voice. Still, he had a nice, lightly-humorous-looking face, quite pleasant to one's eyes. In fact, while watching Day in this episode, I thought about how he possibly could've found success as a movie comedian, ala Bob Hope, with the right material suited to Day specifically. Although not a Hope-style comedian---and, in truth, not a comedian at all---Day just had the right kind of look. Anyway, check out this episode. Day is good & it's a pretty nifty little tale of the Old West.