Deborah, this is great, I have read many reports but this seems to cover the train very well, every bit of information helps, now I do know that my William must have been born in Indiana, reason being there were children put on the train in Indiana, I was told they started about 1870's I am trying to see where they started the ride. One report was the far west of Indiana? I am not good at N E S W or even reading a map. I will save this link and read more later. Ellie I found some great suggestions for researching the orphan trains at http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/ and http://www.orphantrainriders.com/. Good Luck, Debbie Holtzendorff <[email protected]>