The Mid-Continent Railway Museum Restoration Department has recently completed reproducing the cast seat parts for Lake Superior & Ishpeming coach #64 that is undergoing restoration.
http://www.midcontinent.org/equipment-r ... peming-64/
The seat castings had to be made as the seat design and castings are unique to the car builder (Hicks Locomotive & Car Works) and the museum could not simply tap into the museum’s seat inventory to accurately restore the car. 12 of the 26 Hicks seats were missing from the car when MCRM acquired the car in 1985. In a cooperative effort Mid-Continent arranged to have 12 sets of castings made for the missing seats in Yosemite Valley #330, another Hicks produced car that is undergoing restoration at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Given that Hicks Locomotive & Car Works went out of business (bankrupt) in late 1910, these are likely the first Hicks seats that have been made in the last 107 years.
Bill Buhrmaster
MCRM Restoration Dept.
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