Artist Ray Harvey is painting a detailed mural, titled “The Day the Train Came to Pacific,” on the Route 66 corridor in Pacific, Missouri.
The Washington Missourian reports Harvey is painting a 12-by-26-foot mural on a Pacific Plaza wall in the 500 block of East Osage Street.
It’s not the first time Harvey has plied his work along Route 66:
Harvey is a full-time artist who has left his mural mark along Route 66, especially in Cuba, Mo.
Now known as the Mural City, the wall art in Cuba attracts an unknown number of visitors, according to Jill Barnett with Viva Cuba, the organization that launched the mural program in 2001 as part of the city’s 100th anniversary celebration.
Within seven years there were 12 murals, 17 if you count the five panels in the Civil War mural as individual murals, she said.
Find more about the murals in Cuba here. And Harvey painted a mural in the Midwest Petroleum Travel Plaza in Cuba north of Interstate 44.
Harvey estimates he will finish the Pacific mural by late June. He originally slated completion for early June, but heavy rains delayed his work.
(Image of the in-progress Pacific mural by Ray Harvey Art via Facebook)