Illustrated Happy Hour – The Sunshine Special and Midnight Train Cocktail

We are inspired by passenger trains for today’s special HISTORY focused Illustrated Happy Hour. Make yourself one of these Midnight Train cocktails and settle in for a discussion about the Sunshine Special passenger train from the T&P fleet – and then paint along with us at the end! #GraceTrainWeek

The painting featured in the video was created for the book cover for Texas and Pacific Railway: from Ox Teams to Eagles, A History by Don Watson & Steve Brown, The Boston Mills Press, 1978.

‘The Texas and Pacific – From Ox Teams to Eagles’ by Don Watson and Steve Brown tells the history of the T&P in 256 pages.

The restoration of T&P #610 to pull the American Freedom Train through Texas gets its own 30-page chapter (illustrated with over two dozen photos and a map of the route).

The Boston Mills Press, 1978.