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

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

"When I was a kid, tourists would come in their RVs down our driveway, looking for this site and looking for the golden spike," Verhagen said. "So it's kind of been a personal dream of mine to ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... but the government instead chose a muddy site along Ship Creek in what is now downtown Anchorage. U.S. Army Col.

Check out the epic National ... the Golden Spike Visitor Center, where guests can explore exhibits detailing the construction of the railroad and watch a reenactment of the historic moment when ...

The final locomotive whistles of the year rang out at Golden Spike National Historical Park on Monday ... the completion of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States. The site, ...