During the ceremonial launch of the railroad on July 15, 1923, Harding lightly tapped the golden spike twice with a maul, a hammer now behind glass at the railroad headquarters, before driving a ...

The 14-carat gold relic has been in private hands since President Warren G. Harding drove the final railroad spike at the 1923 ceremony marking the completion of the Alaska Railroad in Nenana. On ...

The portion of the trail was officially opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. The project began in ...

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and conservation, ...

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Railroad buffs enjoyed a one-hour talk on the “Golden Spike” celebration 130 years ago that tied the Northern Pacific line from Lake Superior to the West Coast. Jan and Bill Taylor, Missoula authors ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...