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High Iron centers and amplifies all stories of Wyoming rail labor through our digital platform and inside the boxcar. We shine light on immigrant folks who laid the first transcontinental sections, multigenerational workers who built the economy of our state, and contemporary workers and their unions.
Above photo: Japanese railroad workers began arriving in Wyoming at least as early as 1892, when the Oregon Short Line, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific, employed 40 Japanese on its line from Granger, Wyoming, to Oregon. Here, a gang of Japanese workers replaces rails on the Union Pacific at Red Buttes, south of Laramie, in 1906. Wyoming State Archives