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Article: THE "ORPHAN TRAIN' STILL STEAMS THROUGH MANY MEMORIES.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2005
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Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer
Beth Plumley was just 18 months old when child welfare workers in New York City packed her onto a northbound train in 1927.
She doesn't remember what happened hours later, when the locomotive let out its smallest passengers in Medina, about 40 miles outside Rochester.
But she's heard the stories, of how children who rode the so-called orphan trains stepped off at their destination and lined up along the tracks in their Sunday best, for inspection.
"Just before they'd pull in a station, they'd dress these children up," Plumley, 79, said from her home in Haines City, Fla. "Some would dance, some would ...