Well, I did get the links hooked up to my eyes and
to my clevises and it seems to balance out pretty well.
If it'll carry my 200 plus pounds, it ought to carry a suitcase or tube well.
As I look a lot of these old photos, I've been trying to determine where the top of the top should be.
Well it looks like, according to the driver's body position, the top seems to be about in
the shoulder to neck area. So if I measure myself, that's going to be there's 24", 26 inches, in that
area, there somewhere. These might have been a little smaller stature built guys, I really
don't know. There were tall folks back there too. So I'm guessing somewhere around that 26 inches.
So the seat back and arms don't get angled out and back like the passenger seats do.
The driver isn't going to get the creature comforts that the passengers do. So I have the seat
arms built, off the same pattern as the passenger seats. The seat back is going to be straight up
and down, and I'm guessing about 16 inches. It's going to leave a little bit of a space between
the top frame and the seat back, which also appears to be what these old photographs are showing.
So I'm going to go ahead and put the arms and the seat back on this driver's seat,
and get it kind of in position, so I can start putting this top frame together.
Well, I really do think this is what the pictures reveal that this seat was built like,
but it has got to be the most uncomfortable seat I've ever made.
I pity on those drivers.
This little rail here is for the purpose of keeping the driver in position
when he's working the brake, running the lines, swinging right to left, gee and haw.
He's got to stay in this right position. He doesn't want to be sliding around on his seat,
so that's the purpose of this little coach rail. Sitting here, if these seat arms were laid out it
wouldn't be quite so confining, but it looks like from the pictures that's what it was.
I guess it's doable, but it's not my favorite style.
But I think it's right. This is where I have to go with what I think, and what I see is
historically correct for this coach, not what I would rather do. I would build a seat that
had arms and backs laid out that was a little more comfortable. But it's doable.
Anyway, I do appreciate you following along. Thanks for watching.