“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 ...

Ask Americans to name the great migrations that built the country and you’ll hear about Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail, the Great Migration north. Almost nobody mentions the trains full of children.

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, ...

COLUMBUS, Kan. — The Orphan Train Traveling Display exhibit at the Cherokee County Genealogy and History Library is reviving a generation's interest in the country's early foster care and adoption ...

Broad Green Pictures will adapt Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel Orphan Train into a major motion picture. Academy Award nominee Michael London and Janice Williams of Groundswell Productions ...

Through stage productions, video and countless personal reflections most of us know something about the experiences of the Orphan Train Riders. Beginning in 1854 and continuing until 1929, as many as ...

SOUTH BEND — For decades, orphaned or abandoned children on the East Coast were placed on trains and transported to new homes to the west, including many in Indiana and Michigan. Now a local group is ...

'Temple Grandin' writer Christopher Monger will pen the script. By Rebecca Ford Christina Baker Kline’s hit novel Orphan Train will be getting the movie treatment from Broad Green Pictures.

ST. PAUL -- It was3:49 a.m. June 15, 1916, when orphan A17206 arrived at the train station in Winona, Minn. The 2-year-old girl with her name sewn in the hem of her dress was met by a couple who ...

When Orphan Train first came out in 2013, Christina Baker Kline recalls, "it wasn't slated to be a best-seller. It wasn't pitched that way." The expectation was that it would simply be "another of my ...