Rails to Trails, Watertown’s main event of the summer, is back for its 33rd year. The annual festival celebrates the city’s ...

Shortly after, the golden spike was returned to Mears, and Harding began the long trip back to Washington. He suffered a fatal heart attack and died in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 1923.

Plans for the Golden Spike State Monument were unveiled late last month at 2000 W. Forest Street in Brigham city, where a 43-foot, gold-leafed, ...

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 easily bring coal ...

A 43-foot golden spike — a monument to the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 — has arrived in Utah, stopping at the Utah State Capitol on its way to its ultimate home in Box ...

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 ...

“I grew up learning about the golden spike. It's on our quarter.” David Pendleton, a 4th grade history teacher in Utah says adding “You know, it's just like every kid who grows up in Utah ...

Attendees step up to see the Golden Spike Monument after its arrival in front of the Utah state Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday. The 43-foot-tall golden spike was commissioned as a public art ...

Golden Spike plans to use existing space hardware and designs to send paying customers to the surface of the Moon. The group bills itself as a “commercial space company” but it is counting ...

The flag that flew over the golden spike ceremony in 1869 was flown over the Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119 before a reenactment of the golden spike ceremony from 150 years ago.