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

Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of the Alaska Railroad, which connected ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean port city on the south-central coast, to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers) away ...