President Warren G. Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. (Alaska State Library via AP) The Anchorage Museum is shown Wednesday, Jan. 8 ...

The spike’s installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It’s spent most of the time since then in the hands of private owners Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The ...

It was loaned to President Warren G. Harding to use at a ceremony ... he sought to establish a new railroad in Alaska territory. Shah, of the Anchorage Museum, told me how great it was to see ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was ... He sent it back from Seattle for the ceremony featuring President Warren G. Harding. On July 15, 1923, near Nenana, Harding lightly tapped ...

President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the ... railroad has been to the economic development and growth of Alaska."Anchorage, as we know it today, would not exist were it not ...

President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling ... how instrumental the railroad has been to the economic development and growth of Alaska."Anchorage, as we know it today, ...