TrainDad

The Nor­folk South­ern Cor­po­ra­tion is offer­ing a free col­or­ing book to any­one who asks. All you have to do is send an e-mail request­ing one to contactus@nscorp.com. You can see the offer on their web page.

Toby the Train talks about trains and tracks arrives in an official-looking manila enve­lope with the NS logo. That’s a pretty excit­ing thing in itself! Toby the train takes you through pretty stan­dard rail­road PR:

• We do very impor­tant work
• Our work­ers are the best
• Stay safe around trains and tracks
• Don’t play on tracks
• Stop at crossings
• We’re a green company

But our three-year-old is obliv­i­ous to all that — he just knows it has pic­tures of trains, and cross­ing gates… excite­ment on every page!

While you are the Nor­folk South­ern site, it might be worth check­ing their com­pany store. They have a good bit of NS-branded mer­chan­dise at very rea­son­able prices, such as a child’s engi­neer hat for $4.75.