When Heritage Museum Board member Sherry Turner approached Libby Charter School teacher Heather Robertson about doing a mural, the response was unsurprising.

“Any time we get a request, we’re always excited to do it,” Robertson said.

It wasn’t just any request, either.

The mural is on the side of the original Shay maintenance shed on museum grounds that is home to J. Neils Lumber’s Shay Locomotive Ole Four Spot. Museum officials have been fundraising in an effort to get the old engine running again. Turner thought the mural would bring life to the ancient engine that served the Libby Logging Company and J. Neils.

It was one of just four locomotives built in 1906 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Ohio and is the only one that hasn’t been scrapped.

They were shipped to Minnesota and the e

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