Between 1854 and 1929 an estimated 200,000 homeless, abandoned or orphaned children were placed by eastern charity institutions like the Sisters of Charity in homes throughout the U.S. and Canada in what became known as the Orphan Train Movement. There were at least 30,000 from the streets of New York alone. Most of these traveled by train hence the term Orphan Trains.
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