The crew made the landing on the Alaska Railroad train on a stretch of track along the Chena River near Fairbanks. The flight crew included pilots Chief Warrant Officer 3 JD Miller and Chief ...

Railbookers has an 11-day train itinerary called "Grand Alaska Adventure with Alaska Railroad Southbound." The journey includes stops at two state parks: Kenai Fjords National Park and Denali ...

The spike is inscribed, "Presented to Col. Frederick Mears by the city of Anchorage in commemoration of the building of the Alaska Railroad 1915-1923." Anchorage Museum On July 15, 1923 ...

In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in Alaska for the first time after entities combined to ...

Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad over a century ago. (Christie's Images via AP) ...

Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to easily bring coal and other natural ...