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.

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

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 ...

A Christie's spokesman said there was "strong bidding ... Museum Director/CEO Julie Decker said in the statement. "The Golden Spike is a great piece of storytelling about place and people." ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... goes up for auction Friday in New York as part of the Christie's Important Americana collection, said Aaron Leggett, the ...

It ultimately became the unexpected star of Christie’s January 25 Americana sale. Known as Alaska’s Golden Spike, the object represented the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923 ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska ... goes up for auction Friday in New York as part of the Christie's Important Americana collection, said Aaron Leggett, the ...

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.