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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:47:52 GMT
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7)  Take a very close look at the rails on the half and quarter track
sections.  You can clearly see the spots where they were cut and
reassembled.


I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it • looks
to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a
scanner.  I have seen similar effects produced on my own (cheap) scanner
rather frequently.  My argument is that the "cuts" appear to be exactly
horizontal to the scanned image, and not across the track itself.

I just blew these up in my image editor and can say with certainty that the
three most obvious cuts are:

1)  perpendicular (sp?) to the rail, and
2)  in the exact same place for all three track parts!!

Will



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  Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
 
(...) Additionally, it looks like the jag in the left rail is due to the perspective on the picture of a regular piece of track resulting in a size difference when the track is shortened (it even seems like the jag may be a bit more pronounced on (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
 
In lugnet.trains, Will Hess writes: <snip> (...) I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it looks to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a scanner. I have seen similar effects produced on (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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