diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs b/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
index 0443240e1d..79b39ffa3c 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ML.Data/Model/ModelOperationsCatalog.cs
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ internal ModelOperationsCatalog(IHostEnvironment env)
         /// <returns>The loaded model.</returns>
         public ITransformer Load(Stream stream) => TransformerChain.LoadFrom(_env, stream);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Load the model from a file path.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="modelPath">Path to model.</param>
+        /// <returns>The loaded model.</returns>
+        public ITransformer Load(string modelPath)
+        {
+            using (var stream = File.OpenRead(modelPath))
+                return Load(stream);
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// The catalog of model explainability operations.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.ML.TestFramework/DataPipe/TestDataPipeBase.cs b/test/Microsoft.ML.TestFramework/DataPipe/TestDataPipeBase.cs
index e89dbdf853..9dfee880dc 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.ML.TestFramework/DataPipe/TestDataPipeBase.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.ML.TestFramework/DataPipe/TestDataPipeBase.cs
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ protected void TestEstimatorCore(IEstimator<ITransformer> estimator,
                 ML.Model.Save(transformer, fs);
 
             ITransformer loadedTransformer;
-            using (var fs = File.OpenRead(modelPath))
-                loadedTransformer = ML.Model.Load(fs);
+            loadedTransformer = ML.Model.Load(modelPath);
             DeleteOutputPath(modelPath);
 
             // Run on train data.