Montana's 1964 Territorial Centennial Train was a 30-car cross-country extravaganza called "Montana's greatest publicity stunt." Celebrating the creation of Montana Territory and also honoring 75 years of statehood, it featured 150 painted panels commissioned from Lyman Rice to adorn the 30 cars with scenes meant to attract tourists to Montana. Within eight months, Rice, assisted by Bud Wert, painted murals on 14,000 square feet of plywood. The train traveled from Montana to New York on an epic public relations journey, hosted presidents and governors, and impressed 380,000 people at the New York World's Fair. Montana beef specially shipped for the event was served at the Commodore Hotel, where cowboy star Montie Montana and his horse rode the elevator to the banquet hall. After the fair ended and the train returned to Montana, the cars were distributed to communities across the state. Some towns adopted them for Chamber of Commerce offices, while others were abandoned in wheat fields and their painted panels faded in the sun. The Centennial Car next to the Historic Hardin Depot is one of only two surviving Centennial Train cars in Montana. In 2007, volunteer artists including Harry Koyama, Bob Tompkins, Dick Moulden, Berna Loy Ost, and Joe Trakimas painted new mural images on the Hardin rail car, and the paintings were unveiled in June 2007 during Hardin's 100th birthday celebration.