The Anchorage Museum, with financial backing from the Alaska Railroad, will bid on the 14-karat solid gold spike when it goes up for auction Friday in New York as part of the Christie's Important ...

(Bloomberg) -- The rush of gold bullion deliveries into New York depositories from overseas will likely keep the US goods-trade deficit close to a record. February merchandise-trade data on ...

In 2002, and then every year since 2014, Lee and Leland Wong, the great-grandson of a railroad laborer, have hosted a flash mob of sorts to re-create the tableau at Golden Spike National Historical ..

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 ...

The railroad spike, with an offset head, is mostly used to secure rails and base plates to railroad ties in the track. In 1832, Robert Livingston Stevens invented the first railroad spike and it is ...