This center cupola steel caboose is painted red with white ‘Thoroughbred’ logo and white lettering. This caboose is based on a prototype built in the 1960s. It is shown on Bettendorf trucks. The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation headquartered in Norfolk, VA. The company operates over 20,000 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia, and has rights in Canada from Buffalo to Toronto and over the Albany to Montreal route. The most common commodity hauled on the railroad is coal The railroad also offers the most extensive intermodal network in eastern North America.