Car 115 is definitely an oddity. Besides being the only car I know of from Wyoming that is preserved, it is also a single-trucker that in recent decades has been exhibited atop a pair of Bettendorf freight car trucks. It used to be on display in a small park next to Sheridan's Best Western but at some point (I think in the late 1990s) it was moved to a spot in front of the Sheridan County Museum just off the Interstate. It was there as recently as 2015, though according to photos at this link it was really starting to deteriorate.
But now it's vanished, and it was gone by mid-2018 if Google Street View is to be believed. So where has it gone? Hopefully it hasn't been scrapped, though its condition didn't seem that bad. Hopefully it's just been squirreled away somewhere until it can be fixed up. Anyone know?
UPDATE: Mystery solved - check out the comments!
According to this link, the car may be at Fletcher Construction, getting rebuilt to be put on display near the interurban route on North Main Street, on the grounds of Northern Lights Electric. Hopefully it will get some weather protection this time!
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O. Anderson
Good find Olin! I looked up this location and sure enough the car is sitting out front - see https://goo.gl/maps/yay893qd8fbdWBsaA. It doesn't look like it's been fixed up yet, or hadn't when that image was taken, but it has been put on something vaguely resembling a single truck and that's an improvement over its old Bettendorfs.
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