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

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

The Anchorage Museum, along with the City of Nenana, bought a special railroad spike at a Christie’s auction for $200,000.

In this image, July 15, 1923, provided by the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ... has been in private hands outside of the state ever since. About The Star ...

Harding drove a golden ... state and really the whole history of this town begins with the Alaska Railroad," Leggett said of Alaska and its biggest city, Anchorage.The 5 1/2-inch (14-centimeter ...

A Golden Spike That Completed the Alaska Railroad Is up for Auction. Alaskans Want to Bring It Home ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final ...