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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
8:15 a.m. - afternoon
Connecticut Antique Machinery Assn.
(CAMA)
Museum & 40th Annual Fall Festival
The last weekend in September,
CAMA's exhibits are up and running!
Which means --
live-steam locomotive and industrial engines,
a working saw mill, and more.
If you love mechanical stuff, you gotta see this place!
Never heard of a "Hit and Miss" engine? Now you have. So come see what one really is -- how it looks and sounds and why they were used.
We all refer to paving rollers as steam rollers, don't we? But steam-powered rollers were gone long before we were all born. Steam tractors too. You've probably seen neither a real steam roller nor a steam tractor, but you will!
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Not only tons of antique machinery on display indoors and outdoors,
this event draws flea market vendors galore!
The CAMA Museum is huge
but guess what?
There are three other museums on the CAMA campus,
all worthwhile seeing.
Connecticut Museum of Mining and Mineral Science
Eric Sloane Art Museum
Kent Iron Furnace
Google any one of them for more details.
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WHAT CAMA IS ALL ABOUT
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association is a museum that preserves historic machinery. The museum has a number of exhibits on industrial technology such as internal combustion engines, steam engines, agriculture, and logging. Included within the museum grounds is a 3-foot (0.91 m) narrow gauge railroad, with an operating steam locomotive. Originated from a local group of hobbyists, the museum opened to the public in 1985 on a 14-acre site in Kent, Connecticut.
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SUGGESTED SCHEDULE
• 8:15 am -- FORM CAR POOLS at Exit 21 (was 42)
• 8:30 am – DEPART
by Caravan or Car Pool (self-organized)
or drive separately
• 10 am to Noon - or later -- TOUR THE MUSEUMS
(opens 10 am)
• 12 Noon or... -- LUNCH
-On-site-
(burgers and dogs)
best for those who wish to continue to tour after lunch
OR
-Dine at a restaurant in Kent-
there are many restaurant choices
Fyfe & Drum being one of them
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DIRECTIONS
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association is located at
31 Kent Cornwall Rd (Rt. 7) Kent, CT 06757
It's on U.S. Rt. 7 less than a mile north of the center of town.
As you head north on Rt. 7 out of town, CAMA is on the left or west side of the road.
Use care crossing the Railroad Tracks - It is an active railway.
For more information, visit CAMA's website
http://www.ctamachinery.com/
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RSVP? -- NOT REALLY, BUT...
Admission to the Festival (about $10) is payable at the door.
No RSVP is required.
But Bill Blaufuss, Event Host, would like to get an idea of who expects to go.
If you’re going, or thinking of going,
email him NLT Thurs., 9/25
by clicking below (include your cell no.)
CLICK HERE TO EMAIL BILL BLAUFUSS
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Spouses and significant others invited.
Y's Men non-members also invited.
THERE IS NO SPACE LIMITATION ON THIS EVENT
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THIS IS A SYSTEM-GENERATED EMAIL.
ADDRESS IS NOT MONITORED.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY.
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