The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

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

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

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

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

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, joined forces to bring home the Golden Spike, an iconic piece of railroad ...

The golden spike used to complete the Alaska Railroad over 100 years ago will now be permanently displayed in Alaska for the ...

An Alaska museum and city, with help from donors including the Alaska Railroad, have won the auction for a 14-karat gold ...

The Anchorage Museum, along with the City of Nenana, bought a special railroad spike at a Christie’s auction for $200,000.

In this July 15, 1923, image provided by the CIHS Collection, Anchorage Museum, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska.

the city of Anchorage presented him with the golden spike in appreciation of his work. He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska.

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.