Our most recent project is a Frisco’s steam engine train locomotive appearing to be coming out of a tunnel. The size is close to full scale. The project was built for Frisco’s Restaurant in Cuba Missouri for the side of their building.

It all started with a dream and soon turned into plans for construction of a 35-foot tall steel sculpture at the Cuba Missouri Visitor’s Center that celebrates the history and legacy of the Osage Nation. The project, which was overseen by Cuba artist Glen Tutterrow, is now completed. “I had a dream of building something for the Osage Trail. We are here because of the trail that the Osage blazed for us way back when and I have always been very sensitive to the Native American culture”.

The sculpture depicts an Osage Indian family traveling westward along the Osage Trail. It features an Osage warrior in period-specific dress and historically accurate ornamentation, followed on the trail by his family. The Osage Tribe of Native Americans covered a wide range of territory in the American Midwest. Their hunting and warring expeditions spanned the entire Ozark Plateau region and included what would become the states of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

The sculpture stands 35 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 80 feet in length. The sculpture depicts an Osage family moving westward on the Osage Trail. The monument is designed to work with the contours of the site which includes working water features and native plant landscaping. The monument allows interstate drivers to see the sculpture from the city limit boundaries, both east and west. This is one of the largest sculptures ever dedicated, & erected, to the Osage Nation.

Find Out More Information On This Exciting Project By Going To osagetraillegacy.com

Cuba Missouri is a town that owes its development to both the railroad and to Route 66. When Cuba celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2007, the sesquicentennial banners placed the Route 66 logo over the train tracks to highlight the importance of both to Cuba.

In 1857, the town was platted around the anticipated railroad, which did spur the new town’s growth. Along with the development of the main line, there was the 1873 Cuba-Salem, Missouri branch of the road that brought goods and passengers from outlying towns of Viburnum, Cook Station, and Steelville to the mainline in Cuba.

To commemorate the impact of the railroad to the town, Viva Cuba commissioned a replica of the Cuba-Salem branch of the railroad to be installed in the Viva Cuba Garden that sits at the Route 66/Hwy.19 intersection. The steel train is 15′ long and weighs approximately 325 pounds.