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

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

In the Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” put the town under siege 100 years ...

Jan. 24—More than a century after becoming an emblem for the development of the Last Frontier, a major Alaska artifact is returning home. The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have ...

A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...

Nenana Mayor Joshua Verhagen said the city is ... Woodrow Wilson when he sought to establish a new railroad in Alaska territory. Shah, of the Anchorage Museum, told me how great it was to ...

Harding drove the final railroad spike at the 1923 ceremony marking the completion of the Alaska Railroad in Nenana. On Friday morning, the city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum ...

Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. Credit: AP Even today, there are few highways in the nation’s largest state; one of the busiest is ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, 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 ...

Alaska Railroad Golden Spike Auction This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office ...