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 ANCHORAGE, Alaska ...

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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 ...

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Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad's golden spike - The golden spike that was used ...

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) In this image, July 15, 1923, provided ...

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 easily bring coal and other natural ...