--Conn, Kay. "Ernest Hill, orphan train child." (article: The Topeka Genealogical Society Quarterly, v34 n2 April 2004)

--Cook, Jeanne F. "A History of Placing-Out: The Orphan Trains."  (article: Child Welfare, v74 n1 p181-97 Jan-Feb 1995)

--DiPasquale, Connie. "Somewhere over the rainbow: children of the orphan trains."  (article: Kansas heritage. V7 n1, spring 1999)
--Flanagan, Alice K. The Orphan Trains. (book: Compass Point Books, 2006)
--Kidder, Clark. Orphan Trains & Their Precious Cargo: The Life's Work of Rev. H.D. Clarke. (book: Heritage Books, 2001)
--Littlefield, Holly. Children of the Orphan Trains (book: Carolrhoda Books, 2001)

--Moyer, Patsy. "The Orphan Train" (online transcript of a Jan. 21, 2001 article from the Boston Globe

--O'Connor, Stephen.  Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed (book: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
--Patrick, Nikki. "Orphan Train Family." (online article, Pittsburg Sun, Jan 25, 2010)
--Scheuerman, Dan. "Lost Children: Riders on the Orphan Train"  (article: Humanities, v28 n6, Nov/Dec 2007)
--Torigoe, John. "He rode the 'Orphan Train' across the country" (online article, CNN, 2008)
--Trammell, Rebecca S. "Orphan Train Myths and Legal Reality" (online article: The Modern American, v5 n2 Fall 2009)
--Tyson, Edith S. "Three Tracks on the Orphan Train."  (article: ALAN Review, v20 n1 p20-21 Fall 1992)

--Warren, Andrea. We Rode the Orphan Trains. (book: Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
--Wendinger, Renée. The Orphan Trains And Newsboys Of New York. (book:  Legendary Publications, c2009)
--Wright, David Glenn. Orphan Twigs: New York Seedlings Bloom in Kansas, a Family History. (book: published by David G. Wright, 2005)