The Orphan Train
My opinion
I think the orphan train is a really good thing because kids can be treated well and not on the street begging for help on the streets and getting in trouble with the law. The orphan train is also a bad thing because the kids also got really treated bad because they were treated just like an outsider or they just were workers in the fields and were not given that much food. Many times the orphan boys would run away to find their sibling that they were separated from.
Orphan train facts
An estimated 150,000 kids went on the orphan train. Children were often separated from there siblings because sometimes the people that were adopting them only wanted one child. The orphans came from big cities like New York or Boston. the inventor of the orphan train was Charles loring Brace. There were almost no need for jobs because more and more people were coming from the east and those people were taking up all the jobs.so they had to move to the west because the cities were to crouded.