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 Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in ... a rural community—both along the rail belt—coming together for a worthy cause ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... residents also live along that stretch, called the rail belt, which Clemens said is a testament to how instrumental the ...

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