Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/August 29
- 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
- 1907 – The Quebec Bridge (pictured) collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
- 1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.