(Photo courtesy of Nina Bischoff Friend)
Nina wrote: "Found this picture in my mother's old pictures and thought
you
might like to have a copy (yes indeed, I would...thank you, Nina).
This is
the waiting area for the Seaboard Train that went through Borden Springs.
My mother was a post master there and back in the 1950s as children
we
would go down there and watch my mother hang the mail sack on a tall
pole....the train man used a long hook to snatch the mail bag off the
pole
and the train never stopped...just kept on going. My sister and
I played
inside the building as kids but I don't ever remember during our
childhood...of the train stopping to pick up passengers.......the buildings
must have been used in the earlier years when visitors were coming
and
going to the Borden-Wheeler Hotel,
and the train stopped in Borden
Springs."