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Winning Bid Would Return Railroad's Golden Spike
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Alaskans Want Railroad's Golden Spike Back

Warren Harding drove it in a ceremony just before his death

(Newser) - President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act marking the launch of a system to easily bring coal and other natural resources out of the wilderness, a few days before he died of a...

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