High Iron is a moving piece of public art—a modified train car— presently in Laramie, Wyoming until summer 2025. It will then travel westward connecting former rail towns along the Interstate 80 corridor. It houses an interactive labor exhibit, an oral history collection station, and will be the center of accompanying community programming in each city it visits. High Iron will travel stories of ancestors who constructed the transcontinental railroad, multigenerational laborers who built the economy of Wyoming, and contemporary rail workers and their unions. High iron will shine light on buried narratives of: crucial labor, an incredibly diverse state, a culture of care, and immigrant contribution.

On a snowy May Day 2024, our boxcar arrived via semi and crane from a field in Rigby, Idaho to its present home in a city parking lot in Laramie, Wyoming. Our collaborative team transformed this car over five months before we opened it to our community on September 27th.