TAKerry Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Seeing a post in the 'period images' sparked my brain. Though they do have a car barn with some really nice examples of cars and a few old motorcycles, but Rough n Tumble is primarily a Steam Museum. Located in Ronks PA (just east of Lancaster), maybe a half hr or so from Hershey in beautiful Lancaster Co. They have a steam up only a couple times a year but def worth a visit. To see those mighty machines running around is pretty cool to say the least. https://roughandtumble.org 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 I've been there several times for their steam events and enjoyed them tremendously. They used to also have a great flea market, but recent reports indicate that part of it has declined over the years. Terry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip roitman Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 What a great Museum and a working one at that. Was lucky enough to do a AACA Gettysburg Region National Founders Tour a few years ago that included Rough and Tumble. LOVED IT! I look forward to going back one day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Ash Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) The Rough & Tumble Museum is a great place to visit with kids & family. We've been a couple of times. Lots of things to see and do, near Lancaster, PA, middle of PA Dutch country. We got to ride on the train, my wife even had a chance to operate an old turret lathe and make a knurled brass thumbscrew in a few minutes. On the day we were there in 2017, our friend Jerry Kurtz was helping to operate the steam train. There are a number of old steam tractors/threshing engines and some huge stationary engines. There is a nice collection of old cars, not museum pieces but fun. There are also a number of old metal working machines - Joe Puleo would love them. In normal times, i.e. non COVID, they have food available. It's worth a few hours to visit. Steam-powered threshing engine run by coal fire. We saw a young woman shoveling coal into the fire box to build up steam. The steam train engine. Jerry Kurtz in the coal tender. Jerry is a long-time Studebaker fan. A steam powered lawn mower used at the White House. A Studebaker water wagon. An old Brown and Sharpe machine tool. Edited April 15, 2021 by Gary_Ash (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 A B&S #3 horizontal mill. It's one of the "late" ones - probably about 1917. The gear box on the side controlled the horizontal feed speeds. The earlier machines had another 3 or 4-step pulley rather than a gear box and only had that many choices. The speeds are relative to the spindle speed - all of which is much more limiting than a modern machinist would expect. But, ALL of our brass cars and a lot of others up to the 1930s were built with machines like this. I had an "00" - the smallest version of this, serial #41 (c.1897-98). I made a gear that is now in the apron of my lathe with it so as archaic as it may look, these are still functional machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 I will be driving past R&T within the next 2 hours on my way to Cat Tail Foundry. Many Amish are involved with R&T. Some actually use steam engines on their farms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Food is a whole different story! Shoo fly pie, homemade root beer, fresh horseradish, just a few of my favorites.... The first time I was there I was amazed at how quiet these behemoth machines actually run. Being used to hearing the diesel roar of a large dozer, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Food is generally good but Son, Wife and I managed to get food poisoning from pancakes we ate there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 19 hours ago, Restorer32 said: Food is generally good but Son, Wife and I managed to get food poisoning from pancakes we ate there. YIKES! That will spoil the fun. I got bad chicken at RoFo, never again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 On 4/14/2021 at 1:54 PM, philip roitman said: What a great Museum and a working one at that. Was lucky enough to do a AACA Gettysburg Region National Founders Tour a few years ago that included Rough and Tumble. LOVED IT! I look forward to going back one day. I rode on that train with you while there. 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Century Eight Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) This is (Ronks PA) also in the same town as Sight and Sound theatre and the Strasbourg Railroad. You can stay in a caboose motel. Edited April 26, 2022 by Century Eight (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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