ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...

GREENE COUNTY — An 18-year-old woman was brutally murdered with a railroad spike in Greene County 37 years ago, and the man convicted of her murder, David Lee Myers, is now awaiting a new trial out of ...

IT’S DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY. A 43 FOOT TALL GOLDEN RAILROAD SPIKE ROLLING INTO IOWA. THE PUBLIC ART PIECE IS VISITING THE FIRST GOLDEN SPIKE MONUMENT AT THE UNION PACIFIC MUSEUM IN ...

More than a century after becoming an emblem for the development of the Last Frontier, a major Alaska artifact is returning home. The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden ...

Here are a few railroad practices that were common in the 1980s but not today. Freight trains used to have a staffed caboose as the last car for safety, now replaced by an electronic device. Cabooses ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Officials in Henderson County are investigating after someone recently threw railroad spikes through multiple drivers’ windshields on a highway. The North ...

Dog spikes and screw spikes are the two most common railroad spikes in the market. Equipped with an offset head, a railroad spike is a large nail used to secure and fasten rails in a railway system.

A giant, 43-foot, gold-leafed railroad spike monument made its way to Utah State University for the public to admire on Tuesday. The spike is making stops around Utah before becoming a permanent ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $12 billion passenger bullet train linking Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area was dubbed the first true high-speed rail line in the nation on Monday, with the private company ...