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All inclusive tour to Alaska by rail
Day 4 (Sept. 11): Denali to Tallkeetna In the early afternoon you’ll continue south by rail to Talkeetna, which was formed in 1916 as a headquarters for the Alaska Railroad. Here, you'll settle ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
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 ...
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A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction
Alaska would not become a state until 1959. Even today, there are few highways in the nation's largest state; one of the ...
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A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home
About 75% of Alaska’s 740,000 residents also live along that stretch, called the rail belt, which Clemens said is a testament to how instrumental the railroad has been to the economic ...
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‘Golden Spike’ that symbolically completed Alaska Railroad headed back to the state after auction
A variety of private donors supplied money for the purchase, the museum and city of Nenana said in their statement.
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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 ...