Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train goes into detail about the events that occurred throughout a girl’s life who experienced what it was like to travel on the orphan train. The title of the novel, Orphan Train, explains, without needing further knowledge, that someone is about to experience a life-changing event. Just from looking at the title people know that there are going to be children going through an unbearable experience and that’s what Kline wanted to portray when coming up with the title. The name of the novel, Orphan Train, expresses Kline’s personal experience and familial connection to the actual orphan trains that were existent from the 1850’s to the late 1920’s. Kline’s husband’s grandfather was on a train in the Midwest with his brothers. Although it wasn’t an official orphan train, hearing about how she had a personal connection is what sparked the drive to move forward with the completion of the novel. Through the title, Kline illuminates the feelings of isolation and abandonment that all the orphans were able to feel at such young ages.