The Associated Press on MSN11d
A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home
BUT IN 1973, JIM TOOK A PART TIME POSITION AT THE STRASBURG RAILROAD. YEAH. STARTED OUT JUST A JOB. NEVER ENDED TRAINS, BUT ...
Reno Gazette-Journal24d
Jan. 13, 1952: Luxury train stranded in Sierra snowstorm
A freighter was abandoned by her crew in the northern Pacific Ocean as a storm swept south from the Gulf of Alaska ... military nurses who also were passengers. Southern Pacific Railroad Company ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
The Alaska Railroad’s Golden Spike Hammered in by President Harding Will Return to Its Home State
The spike's installation marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. It's spent most of the time since then in the ...
Artnet10d
Anchorage Museum Helps Bring Historic Railroad Spike Home to Alaska
The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, joined forces to bring home the Golden Spike, an iconic piece of railroad ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston11d
A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home
TYPICALLY THIS IS TRAIN NUMBER 300. THE LANCASTER IN ... Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad’s golden spike
The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...