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This 500-mile Railroad Goes to National Parks, Glaciers, and Some of the Best Northern Lights Destinations in the U.S.

This 500-mile Railroad Goes to National Parks, Glaciers, and Some of the Best Northern Lights Destinations in the U.S. Here’s ...
Alaska Dispatch News

After decades out of public view, the Alaska Railroad golden spike is up for auction. Will it come home?

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...
Jeb Brooks on MSN

I took the Alaska Railroad to experience magic 🌟

Episode one of the #WildernessToWaikiki trip features a flight with Alaska Airlines to Alaska. Episode three highlights ...
New Haven Register

A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. 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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Alaska Railroad’s Golden Spike Hammered in by President Harding Will Return to Its Home State

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, President ...