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i x I would like to thank my readers of this book when a manuscript: Carter Wilson, Donna Hunter, Helen Wallis, Joanne Sterricker, Patricia Henritze, Kay Reeve,and Dorothy Mohr. Thanks to Valerie Dibbleforhelpwithselectingthephotographs.AlsoIamgratefulto the people who granted me interviews: Pat Doolette, Julie Watson, Bonnie Susbauer, Cary Smith, Howard Halla, Kevin Klein, Ceace Poxon, Joey, Jen Wallis, and Joe Wyman. I would like to thank Al Stockton for permission to tell his story. I would also like to thank the Burruss Institute at Kennesaw State University for a travel grant and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Kennesaw State University for a Faculty Enhancement Leave grant to enable me to have time to finish the manuscript. The stories in this book are true. In a few cases, I have changed thenamesofthecharacters,eitherattheirrequestortoprotecttheir privacy. A version of “Boomer in a Boom Town” previously appeared in Boomer: Railroad Memoirs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) and in Trains magazine (June 2004). © 2009 TRAINS Magazine. Reprinted with permission of Kalmbach Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Parts of “Breaking in Blues” previously appeared as “Railroad Women Tell It” in Railroad History (December 2002), the journal of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, and as “Mean Old Nontraditional Blues” in Railroad Heritage (March 2007). A version of “The Hospital Yard” previously appeared in Trains magazine (January 2003). © 2009 TRAINS Magazine. Reprinted with permission of Kalmbach Publishing Co. All rights reserved. A version of “The Lawrence Switcher” previously appeared in Trains magazine (March 2005). © 2009 TRAINS Magazine. Reprinted with permission of Kalmbach Publishing Co. All rights reserved. A version of “The Lord of the Night” previously appeared in Trains magazine (September and October 2006). © 2009 TRAINS Magazine. Reprinted with permission of Kalmbach Publishing Co. All rights reserved. A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S RailroadNoir.indb 9 12/17/09 2:00 PM x RailroadNoir.indb 10 12/17/09 2:00 PM ...

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