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Forging an axe from a railroad spike, showing the shaping, heat treatment, and finishing process using traditional blacksmithing techniques. Trump pulls US out of more than 30 UN bodies Noem calls ICE ...
‘Ship Creek Crossing” is the title of the Alaska Railroad’s 2026 art print, by Alaskan artist Richard Rearick. The public is invited to meet the artist and purchase signed prints and posters at a ...
SPOKANE, Wash. – 111 years ago, Spokane railroad executives celebrated the completion of a critical railroad link by pounding a golden spike into the final railroad tie under the Monroe Street Bridge.
Film director Spike Lee’s new joint, Highest 2 Lowest, lands us amid the charmed life of music tycoon David King, played by Denzel Washington. King is perched in his luxurious Dumbo penthouse, ...
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 jail. The case, ...
“Muscle, Iron, and Steam: The Railroad in Art and Image,” an exhibition celebrating the power and nostalgia of the railroad opened Friday at the Hazleton Art League The exhibit highlights striking ...
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 on by ...
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 ...
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 conservation, ...
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 win an ...