I actually never heard of these before arcadata started posting about them but there is a big article about them at Wikipedia. Apparently the series is still being written and set in current times.
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The Boxcar Children is a children's literary franchise originally created and written by American writer and first-grade school teacher,[1] Gertrude Chandler Warner. Today, the series includes well over 100 titles...Only the first 19 stories were written by creator Warner. Other books in the series have been written by other writers, but always feature the byline "Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner". The recent books in the series are set in the present day, whereas the original books were set in the 1940s and 1950s.
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The Boxcar Children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxcar_Children