Train to Bethlehem follows 9 orphans in 1935 on their way to locate their new families in a small town at the foothills of The White Mountains in Bethlehem New Hampshire. A train trip normally taking one day turns into a week as the children and Head Conductor Henry find courage, faith, and joyful laughter in the midst of blizzards, below zero temperatures, and the relentless force of Miss Crankle a social worker determined to take the children away from Henry back to the Boston Orphanage.