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.

On Friday morning, the city of Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden spike at a Christie’s Auction House auction in New York City.

The item was auctioned off by Christie's auction house Friday as part of its Americana Week featuring other rare American historical ... for this site and looking for the golden spike," Verhagen ...

Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago ...

Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding hammered a golden spike into train tracks in central Alaska. It was the ceremonial final piece of the Alaska Railroad, which connected ...

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.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike ... s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600, more than four times the $50,000 top-line estimate for the historical artifact.