Laying tracks across the untamed ... a hammer now behind glass at the railroad headquarters, before driving a regular spike. Shortly after, the golden spike was returned to Mears, and Harding ...

The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...

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 ...

"The last rail lay on the ties, ready to be swung into ... He described it as a 11-foot high replica of a railroad spike with two 10-foot long wooden signboards that read "LAST SPIKE MAY 19 ...