ORPHAN TRAINS -- ORPHAN-TRAINS Mail List Home Page, with links links to sites and additional material on the subject. The orphan trains carried thousands of American children to new homes in various states. Discussions pertaining to anything related to these children, circumstances, finding their families, and history of these trains, are encouraged. The time period ranges from the 1850s to about 1930. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/orphan-trains-l.htm Previously published in RootsWeb Review; Vol. 5, No. 48, 27 November 2002.