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The cover artwork for ADKOT was designed by Los Angeles-based Smog Design, following a concept sent by Roth. The steam locomotive featured is a New York Central Railroad J-3A Dreyfuss Hudson, photographed by Robert Yarnall Richie. Smog co-owner John Heiden picked the image from the Southern Methodist University’s photo library, stating he chose it because “Richie’s angle on the photo makes it look like the locomotive is in motion and coming off the page“. Aside from a reversed angle of the locomotive, the