PRINEVILLE, OR -- A 1920s-era logging train is getting a new home at the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation. President Roy Hemmingway says the “Mount Emily Shay” locomotive has a unique place in the history of Oregon’s logging industry, "They were used to go into the woods over very rough track laid up the valleys, to access timber that otherwise couldn’t be reached. These tracks were often very rough, they went over steep terrain." He tells KBND News, "It was instrumental in opening the woods for the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in Oregon."

After it was no longer needed for logging, the engine spent time in West Virginia. Since 1994, it's run on the Prineville Railway. Hemmingway says the city could no longer use it, so they sought to find a new home. It is now coming to the Foundation's museum in Portland

It needs a federal inspection to make sure it’s in good working order, "And then when that’s completed, we can use it on the Oregon Pacific Railway tracks next to our museum to pull both our holiday train, as well as excursions on weekends along the river, between the museum and Oaks Park."

He says very few Shays are still running, and this engine will be the foundation’s first to exhibit the importance of logging railroads in Oregon.