Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 abandoned or poverty-stricken New York children were relocated to Midwestern families to relieve the overpopulation in the city’s streets. In “The Orphan Train ...

With the launch of Hutchinson’s inaugural One Book, One Community project this month featuring “The Orphan Train: The Novel,” by Christina Baker Kline, it seems fitting to write about Hutchinson’s ...

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, thousands of orphaned children were placed on trains and sent across the United States.

Sixty thousand is the number of copies Christina Baker Kline thought her newest book, Orphan Train, might sell in her “wildest dreams.” For a midlist author on her fifth novel, it was a lofty number.

Step back in time to March 15, 1906, when the Orphan Train pulled into the Eastern Iowa town of Hopkinton. Townsfolk paused in their daily routines, drawn to the unusual gathering prompted by the ...

LITTLE ROCK — Before the child-welfare system began, one solution to the growing number of orphaned children in New York City was to place them on trains and send them to live with families in the ...

Alice Kearns Geoffroy Bernard, the last known living Orphan Train rider in Louisiana, died Saturday (Jan. 17) in Lafayette. She was 98. The Orphan Train Movement from 1854 and 1929 was a social ...

New York in the 1850s was a difficult place to live. There was an influx of immigration, high rates of infectious diseases, and poor working conditions. Some estimate the number of children on the ...

“Orphan Train,” Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel, is boarding the big screen. Broad Green Pictures is developing a movie based on the book with Michael London and Janice Williams of ...

The Crete Public Library District reached out via social media to find descendants of orphan train riders who want to share their stories for programming related to an upcoming exhibit. Sarah Wegley, ...