An unscheduled Amtrak stop ended in a surprise delivery in Harford County Saturday.
At 5:43 p.m. Aberdeen police officers were called to the Amtrak station on East Bel Air Avenue as a northbound train on the way to New York made an unexpected stopped in Aberdeen.
When officers Gibbons and Testerman arrived at the train station they found Sheera Lowe of Philadelphia in labor. Officers and paramedics from the Aberdeen Volunteer Fire Company prepared for an emergency deliver. About 15 minutes later, at 6:01 p.m., Trinity Christina Stokes was born.
Baby and mother were taken to University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air shortly after the baby was born.
Lowe got on the train in Kannapolis, North Carolina after visiting her husband who is working for FedEx and is assigned out of state, according to police.
The baby's due date was March 4, but Lowe started having contractions after the train left Penn Station in Baltimore. Her water broke on the train and she arrived in Aberdeen just in time for 8 lb. 5 oz. baby Trinity to enter the world, police said.
Officer Gibbons later visited mom and baby at the hospital and she told him she chose her daughter's middle name because of a passenger from New York who comforted her as she went into labor.
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