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 ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Alaska Railroad began as a private line in the early 1900s, extending some 50 miles north of Seward. About a decade later, the federal government expressed ...

with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than four times the $50,000 top-line estimate ...