The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...

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 ...

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

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.

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, joined forces to bring home the Golden Spike, an iconic piece of railroad ...

The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...

Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad over a century ago. (Christie's Images via AP) ...

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 ...

He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska. Harding was the first president to visit Alaska. During the ceremonial launch of the railroad ...