President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of ...

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...

A variety of private donors supplied money for the purchase, the museum and city of Nenana said in their statement.

The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

RIDE AS HE SAID HIS FINAL FAREWELL. WE’RE READY TO GO. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. THERE WE GO. JIM RICE NEVER INTENDED TO BE A RAILROAD MAN. I HATED IT AS A KID. I JUST REMEMBER MY DAD BRINGING ME UP JUST ...

President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to easily bring coal ...

In this image, July 15, 1923, provided by the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana ...