title: Inside Freight Train
author:  Donald Crews 
description: Hop on board and see what's inside the freight train! Slide apart the sturdy pages of this unusual board book to reveal the contents of the cars. The refrigerator car keeps apples, peaches, and pears cold and fresh, while the tender carries coal that burns in the fire box, and--everyone's favorite--the caboose holds the train crew that helps deliver the freight. A continuous track runs through the book, with connecting brightly colored train cars. An appealing concept, executed simply and pleasingly, <i>Inside Freight Train</i> can't miss with the train-loving masses. Caldecott Honor winner Donald Crews (<i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688104819/${0}">Truck</a></i> and <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688117015/${0}">Freight Train</a></i>) has a way with heavy machinery and young readers. (Ages 2 to 5) <i>--Emilie Coulter</i>
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  The train lurched as it often did, and Matthew grabbed the overhead hat rack.
  A series of further lurches, and the train pulled into the station. Matthew
  retrieved his hat and strode through the door of the compartment and toward
  the exit. He waited impatiently for the conductor to open the door before
  descending to the platform.
  
  
  As he had predicted, other passengers shared his desire to step off the train.
  He regarded the small station, but no explanation for his sense of expectancy
  seemed to await him there.
  
  
  Several newly arriving passengers boarded other cars of the train. He turned
  around to study the train itself. Lights glowed from many of the windows in
  the various cars, even from his own compartment. He had left his curtain
  partially open. Nothing seemed particularly extraordinary in the presentation
  of the train.
  
  
  The evening air in Spokane was chillier than that of Seattle, and he pulled
  his jacket about him more tightly. A practical man by