The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...

The town of Nenana said “safe travels” to Jonathan Hayes and his team on Monday as they took off to recreate the Serum Run ...

There were no roads or trains that reached Nome. Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles (1,086 kilometers) from Nome via the frozen Yukon River ...

Mary Knight, a dog musher in Fairbanks, Alaska, had been looking for an off-the-grid property ... about 50 trail miles northwest of Nenana, the nearest city. “In my seven or so years of looking at ...

The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad in 1923 will for the first time be on permanent display in ...

Harding drives the final golden spike at the new Alaska Railroad bridge in Nenana, Alaska. Credit: AP Even today, there are few highways in the nation’s largest state; one of the busiest is ...

Historic golden railroad spike will return to Alaska after Anchorage Museum and Nenana team up for purchase Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Sat, January 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC ...

The Anchorage Museum and the city of Nenana, with financial help from private donors and the Alaska Railroad, won the Christie’s auction for the spike in New York with a bid of $201,600 ...