A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction
President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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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 in Cleveland was sentenced Wednesday morning. Joseph Findley was sentenced ...
Historic golden railroad spike will return to Alaska after Anchorage Museum and Nenana team up for purchase
More than a century after becoming an emblem for the development of the Last Frontier, a major Alaska artifact is returning home. The Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad ...
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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 ...