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

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

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.

The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...

This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska ...

Harding drove the final railroad spike at the 1923 ceremony marking the completion of the Alaska ... Nenana collaborated with the Anchorage Museum and other private donors to purchase the golden ...

Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. Credit: AP He sent it back from Seattle for the ceremony featuring President Warren G. Harding.

the city of Anchorage presented him with the golden spike in appreciation of his work. He sent the spike back from Seattle for the Harding event in Nenana, a community in interior Alaska.