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.

The Golden Age of railroads, which lasted from the 1880s until the 1920s, may be a thing of the past, but don’t think for a minute the popularity of live railroads and model railroading is waning.

A recently released study looks to the future of passenger rail in the country and Montana looks to play a part.The U.S.