Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad ... The railroad was built to open what was then the Alaska territory to development. It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean ...

I look forward to working together and tying our communities together once again with this same Golden Spike,” Nenana Mayor Joshua Verhagen said in a statement. Work on the nine-year railroad ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... It connected Seward, a Pacific Ocean port city on the south-central coast, to Fairbanks, 470 miles (756 kilometers) away ...