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The Alaska Railroad's Golden Spike Hammered in by President Harding Will Return to Its Home State
The spike’s first owner was Colonel Frederick Mears, the railroad’s chief engineer. Earlier in 1923, the city of Anchorage presented it to Mears to commemorate his role in the project’s ...
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Last last spike - In 1909, Milwaukee completes nation’s final transcontinental railroad to little fanfare
Both construction projects were handled by the same company ... 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 ...
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The Alaska Railroad’s Golden Spike Hammered in by President Harding Will Return to Its Home State
The spike’s first owner was Colonel Frederick Mears, the railroad’s chief engineer. Earlier in 1923, the city of Anchorage presented it to Mears to commemorate his role in the project’s ...
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Last last spike - In 1909, Milwaukee completes nation’s final transcontinental railroad to little fanfare
Both construction projects were handled by the same company ... 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 ...