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The final spike was hammered home to complete Loveland’s newest stretch of freight rail on Wednesday. But the one-and-three-quarter-inch-wide railroad won’t be connecting the city to any hubs ...
When they tried to speak with him, he threw two railroad spikes at a cruiser, denting it and shattering glass, authorities said. Police said Arrieta jumped into the Okeechobee Canal, where ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — This Saturday, head downtown for the 2025 Silver Spike Railroad Jubilee. It’s the 145th anniversary of the arrival of the first train to Tucson. The annual event is put ...
Before the neon lights, casinos, and iconic skyline — there was a single railroad spike that changed everything. We went searching for Nevada’s Last Spike, the forgotten landmark that quietly ...
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 ...
In December, leaders of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska began hearing “some rumblings” on social media. Those “rumblings,” as Monica Shah, the museum’s deputy director of collections and ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The golden spike that was used to complete the Alaska Railroad over a century ago will be on permanent display in Alaska for the first time after entities combined to ...
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 ...