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 ...
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Historic golden railroad spike will return to Alaska after Anchorage Museum and Nenana team up for purchase
The total cost of purchasing the 14-karat gold railroad spike at auction, to reclaim a piece of Alaska Railroad history, was ...
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Typical Railway Track Components Overview – Sleepers, Fishplates, Fasteners and Spikes.
The railroad spike, with an offset head, is mostly used to secure rails and base plates to railroad ties in the track. In 1832, Robert Livingston Stevens invented the first railroad spike and it is ...
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AGICO Group Provides Tie Plates for Railway Construction
there is no need of railroad tie plates. The track bed (made by stone and gravel) and wooden sleeper act as the support to steel rails. Fastening steel rails to railroad ties is mainly by dog spikes.
Golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction
Two Alaska institutions are making a bid to bring home a golden spike that was driven into the ground more than a century ago to mark the completion of the Alaska Railroad ...
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Man sentenced after sabotaging train tracks in Cleveland
Previous coverage on the arrest of Joseph Findley CLEVELAND (WJW) – The man arrested by the FBI for trying to detail trains ...
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After decades out of public view, the Alaska Railroad golden spike is up for auction. Will it come home?
The Alaska Railroad golden spike, which will go up for auction at Christie's in January 2025. (Photo provided by Christie's) Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian ...
‘Railroad Spike Murder’ suspect released on house arrest, awaits new trial
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — After nearly 30 years behind bars, a Greene County Death Row inmate is now out on house arrest. David ...