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

Laying tracks across the untamed Alaska wilderness had a “transformational impact on the last century of Alaska’s history,” said Meghan Clemens, the railroad’s director of external affairs ...

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 easily bring coal ...