On the night of November 19, 1915, the conductor of Southern Railway train No. 24, heading for Atlanta, stopped for thirty minutes in Tallapoosa, Georgia. Why? So he could track down a doctor to attend to passenger Mrs. E. M. Looney, who had just given birth to a baby girl.
Mother and baby were in such good condition upon reaching Atlanta at 10:30 p.m. that the ambulance awaiting them simply took them to their home on West Peachtree Street.
The little girl was named ‘Jimmie’ after the Pullman car in which she was born, the “Jamestown.”
(Interestingly, the Jamestown was Pullman’s first all-steel sleeping car. It was built in early 1907 for the Jamestown Exhibition in Virginia.)
Sources:
- “Stop Southern Train When Stork Arrives.” Constitution [Atlanta, GA] 20 Nov. 1915: 9.
- The Pullman History Site: The Pullman Company
Image: Adapted from Pullman car exterior (public domain)
