West by Orphan Train (2014)

It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in Americas notsodistant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were loaded on trains and sent west where they were presented for the picking West by Orphan Train will tell the story of these children who were taken from a sometimesrough existence to an unfamiliar rural setting during an era that lasted from 1854 to 1929 As some of the last of the stillliving orphan train riders like to remind us it was a different era one that cant be judged without understanding what lives were like then West by Orphan Train a documentary film completed late in 2014 offers that understanding