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Join us on May 9 and 10, 2014, for

Fox Chapel Publishing’s Open House,

which will be held in conjunction with

Rough and Tumble’s Spring Steam-Up.

The Open House will include carving,

scrolling, and turning classes and

demonstrations, and plenty of vendors

with woodworking tools and materials,

plus full access to Rough and Tumble’s

machinery and exhibits. For information

and tickets, visit www.wood-show.com

or call 800-457-9112.

The rumbling is the first thing you

notice. Tractors, big engines, and

antique cars are all fired up, their

deep growls punctuated by blasts

from a locomotive’s steam whistle.

The air smells like a tantalizing

mixture of fuel, steam, cut wood,

and sugar. There are people and

machines everywhere you look.

Welcome to the Rough and Tumble

Engineers Historical Association in

Kinzers, Penn.

Located about 10 miles east

of Lancaster in the Pennsylvania

Dutch countryside, Rough and

Tumble is a non-profit organization

dedicated to preserving America’s

agricultural and industrial history.

The museum is staffed entirely

by volunteers brought together by

their love of old machines and the

relics of America’s rural past.

Housed in three dozen

buildings spread across 33 acres,

Rough and Tumble owns the oldest

running internal combustion

engine in the United States,

built in 1867; the second oldest

running steam traction engine,

built in 1886 and recently restored;

stationary and mobile engines

powered by steam, propane, and

gasoline; a sawmill; a shingle mill;

restored tractors by John Deere,

IH, and Rumley, among others;

threshing machines; and two steam

trains, which loop the grounds

continuously during events.

The grounds are also home to a

blacksmith shop, a display of model

engines, a shop full of shaft-driven

machines, antique cars and trucks,

and more. Much, much more.

Founded in 1948, Rough

and Tumble’s mission is not just

to collect these objects but to

encourage devotees and the public

to interact with the machines

and experience history. The

organization hosts about 10 events

each year, ranging from tractor

pulls to blacksmithing school and

a harvest show. In fact, Rough and

Tumble began not as a museum

but as an event: the Threshermen’s

Reunion, now the second oldest

such gathering in the country.

During the late 19th and

early 20th centuries, threshermen

traveled from farm to farm with

their steam threshers to harvest

grain. The threshermen and

farm families would gather for a

celebratory picnic when the harvest

was in. The festivities attracted

manufacturers and salesmen,

who showed off their new farm

equipment. As gas-powered

tractors gained popularity, steam-

powered engines waned and the

Central Pennsylvania threshermen’s

association realized its time had

passed. The group decided to go

out with a huge version of a harvest

picnic—the first Threshermen’s

Reunion, which was held at

Arthur S. Young’s farm equipment

dealership, just across the street

Rough &

Tumble

The thunderous rumbling of dozens of steam-

powered heavy machines shake the 33 acres

of Rough and Tumble in Kinzers, Penn.

The two steam locomotives that circle the

grounds during Rough and Tumble events.

Home of the upcoming

Fox Chapel Open House

By Mindy Kinsey

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