"We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children"

This quote by Robert Stack speaks to the harsh realities of the Great Depression. During this time, many families were having a hard time to make ends fulfill and were not able to attend to their children. As an outcome, they were required to put their kids on the Orphan Train, a train that took a trip across the country in search of families who could supply a much better life for the kids. The hope was that someone would get the kids and offer them with a better life than they could have had with their own households. Sadly, many of the kids were not embraced and were instead sent to orphanages or foster homes. This quote serves as a reminder of the hard times that many households dealt with throughout the Great Depression and the lengths that they were willing to go to in order to offer a much better life for their kids.