The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...

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

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

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

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

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad ANCHORAGE, Alaska ...

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and ...

I’LL CHECK IN ON THEM, MAKE SURE THEY’RE DOING IT RIGHT. President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial ...

The city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden spike at a Christie’s Auction House auction in New York City.