Orphan Train (1979) is an American film based on the real-life orphan train movement which – from the middle of the 19th century - took children from the eastern coast cities of the USA to cities in the Midwest for foster care & adoption.

Orphan Train stars Emma Symms as a young woman accompanying the 1st group of children. Kevin Dobson play Frank Carlin, a reporter who is recording the journey.

The Orphan Train program operated between 1854 and 1929 and relocated approximately 200,000 children. Although the program purported to find homes for orphaned children, many of the children were from impoverished and immigrant families. Critics of the program were concerned about the exploitation of the children as farm labour; the lack of initial screening of foster families; and the lack of follow up about the well-being of the children.