A playroom for his trains is what 5 year old Dalton Pederson asked for when given one wish.

The only child of William and Laura Pederson of Long Branch. Dalton didn't ask for anything as far out as a jet plane ride or a part in a movie. He wanted a room in which he could play with his trains. That room is under construction in a section of an old shop connected to his parents home on Grand Avenue.

Remodeling the room is Kevin Freibott, a Middletown Police Officer with construction experience. Freibott has had another experience that drew him to Jason's Dreams. He lost his 26-month-old daughter to bone marrow cancer on Easter Sunday 2002.

Freibott has told McGinnis he wanted to help the organization that helped his daughter. Jason's Dreams had raised funds to ffset the medical expenses for Freibott's daughter through a dinner/dance and auction.

As for Dalton, "he keeps asking when is his train room going to be ready," his mother said. "He has a bunch of trains throughout the house, in every conceivable place except the kitchen or bathrooms. Now he just needs a place where we won't be tripping over them, someplace he can call his own."

The Pedersons can thank Laura Pederson's employer, the Eatontown law firm of Wilentz Goldman and Spitzer for purchasing a train set for her son.

"We're going to hire someone to help set up the electrical train set," she said. "Local artists already have volunteered to come here and paint murals on the walls of Dalton's room."

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