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In 1929, the Mountain Washington Cog Railway, then owned by the Boston & Maine, located in New Hampshire, was celebrating it's 60th year in operation. B&M was able to locate Ol' Peppersass, the original vertical boiler locomotive. While descending the mountain, after completing it's run to the top (dignitaries traveled in a separate train), its gear broke, and the locomotive sped out of control down the mountain. The fireman and engineer jumped clear (suffering some broken bones; Mount Washington is notoriously rocky) but the photographer perished when he failed to exit the locomotive before it, in turn, exited the track. The remains of Peppersass were recovered and rebuilt, and are now on static display. The Cog, as it is known, is still in operation.
