# Novels about the Orphan Trains?

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**Created:** [February 1, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-about-the-orphan-trains/342464 "2006-02-01T03:19:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/novels-about-the-orphan-trains/342464/1 "2006-02-01T03:19:01Z")

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I borrowed the movie “The Railroad Children” from the library without reading the box. It’s a nice movie, but not about the [orphan trains](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/) as I expected. Which has made me long to read a book or three on the subject.

I’ve read some before, but they’ve all been mean for young readers. So does anyone know of any adult-reader novels with orphan trains as a premise? Or failing that, non-fiction book, preferably a personal account. I’m not really interested in a book that examines the practice and its history.