The manual is a free download from Nikon.

Having not seen any responses yet, I'm guessing that you might have to take your wife and report back😁.

However, looking at the northbound traffic in Michigan this afternoon I am willing to bet that not many of us are home this weekend.

I've always tried to live my life so that when I look in the mirror every morning, I can have the respect of the guy looking back.

Bill 45, I'm not sure where you are located. If nearby, I could develop the sheets for you. Or, show you how to do it in a Patterson tank.

Did you get any sheet film holders with it? If not, I may have a couple spares. They will be dusty (just as I received them) and will need cleaning.

Ed, I have a ton of admiration for you. I've tried shooting my Speed Graphic hand held with just a double dark slide using the rangefinder. I've held my Nikon with the 150-500 lens steadier :).

Also Bill 45, if you're in Michigan or northern Indiana and would like to get together to go shoot/develop/print - let me know. I have a Beseler 4x5 that I print with.

Portland Head Lighthouse

Unlike others, I've had great success buying on CL. I do make private contact with seller and negogiate the deal. Many times, at sellers request have met in a public location. The last time was in the parking lot of the the local police station.

Another time, we could not work out a time/meet as he was out of state. He left the items (20 4x5 film holders) in a spot on his property and I left the cash in envelope in the same spot. Worked well.

Uh, two legs??? I recall asking once the difference between a two piece chicken dinner and a three piece chicken dinner. The persons response was "a piece of chicken." In my mind, I was asking if it were a breast, thigh, leg or wing. But, she was correct :).

Interestingly, my daughter got a cinder in her eye at the age of four riding in the caboose behind this locomotive. She wet her pants sitting on my lap when she got her first locomotive cab ride in a GP7 on the Michigan Northern back in the eighties. Did I mention that she was four years old at the time?

That railroad had my heart, since both of my grandfathers retired from the Pennsy. Grandpa Miller was supervisor of MOV from Elkhart, IN to Mackinac City, MI. My Granpa Stapp worked in the engine house in Grand Rapids, MI. My father worked summers packing wheel boxes while in high school.

I got my first and only cab ride after Grandpa Stapp retired while we were at the local feed mill. The local engineer saw Grandpa Stapp and told him to throw me up into the cab. Three hours later, they dropped us off after having gone from Howard City to Cadillac, switched out trains and came back through town.

I recall having sent the train orders up the "pole" for the local coming south. Really heady stuff for a 5 year old. I stood back while they sped by and grabbed the train orders from it.

12 trains a day used to go through our little town, now the tracks are pulled and the ROW is a hiking/snowmobile trail. The Pere Marquette also had an interchange here, but the track was pulled up during the depression. The PM right of way is in my back yard.

I remember this from when the "National" was held in Detroit. I was on the committee that hosted the 2012 National Convention. We took a bus down to Detroit to give our presentation.

Mike, it was in the locomotive shops in Battle Creek.

Since I have been servicing their storage equipment, (if memory serves) they've gone from Jordan, to Jackson/Jordan to Harsco.

I recall when they were building the rail grinding trains, two for export to China.

I'm not sure that I see any 'Trumpism' there, more a statement of fact. Given that Ed's speaking as a Canadian, I'm fairly certain there was no politics involved.

Harsco Rail in Ludington, MI. is closing this spring. They have a long history building railroad MOW equipment at this facility.

I too, am a fan of the Shay. I live an hour south of Cadillac, Michigan where Ephraim Shay first devised his locomotive.

Just to add to the kudos posted here, they are now the US distributor for Ilford analog products.