High Iron
A transformed historic Union Pacific boxcar, carrying the stories of immigrant and migrant workers who built the transcontinental railroad — traveling rail towns across Wyoming through 2029. The only monument in Wyoming dedicated to railroad laborers.
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A boxcar as a public square
High Iron began with a 1950s Union Pacific boxcar, stripped down and rebuilt into a walk-through exhibition space. Inside, visitors move through an interactive labor exhibit and an oral history collection station, gathering the testimony of railroaders alongside the descendants of the people who laid the original track.
The car carries stories of the immigrant and migrant laborers who built the transcontinental railroad, the multigenerational workers who built Wyoming's economy on the rails that followed, and the contemporary rail workers and unions who keep the line running today.
High Iron travels from town to town along the I-80 corridor, arriving in Laramie in 2024, moving through Cheyenne in 2026, and continuing its route through 2029 — a monument that does not sit still, because the labor it honors never did either.