Just recieved my new 2013 N&Z Wish Book ,as Con Cor use to call em, from Wally World. I know the mock up of this book featured the now cancled 0-8-0 on the cover,so the usually nice cover scene is marred by that huge Crapido coupler on the front of the Southern DL 109. What a regression back,go to the locomotive discription in the "Lokies" section and you learn that an MT coupler is on the rear,but no mention about that ugly thingie on the front. Atleast Life Like provided a pivoting dummk knuckle coupler on their versions of this and other diesels. Try and run two of the Southern or other DL 109's back to back to pull a passenger train,hey wait you will have to convert the front pilots,(how easy is that?) . The photo of the Southern RS2 locos with train on the inside first page would be nice execpt one RS2 locos ran long hood first, the paint scheme on the hoppers is way too new, or the locomotives should be in the Tuexedo Black & White Scheme with gold (yellow?) striping. The rear cover photo is ok,but would you really see RS2's from all those different roads together at one place. Nate Goodman (Nato).Salt Lake, Utah
