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    Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Tore Eriksson
   Is this real LEGO(R), or is it a clone? If it is Lego, then what set numbers are they from? (URL) supply looks familiar, but I've never heard of *yellow* train tracks before... /Tore (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Frank Filz
     (...) 4563 (which IS one of the first 9V train sets, but not one of the first EVER LEGO Trains...). (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Arjen ter Horst
     I don't think it is the lighting. Usually you can recover the colors by adjusting settings for the picture in a program like Photoshop or even Microsoft Photo Editor. I did not succeed in doing so, so my guess is this person PAINTED the tracks (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Mike Poindexter
     It is not painted. I took some pictures and they turned out like that as well. You need to use all natural lighting and turn off the flash when photographing Lego. The flash changes the color due to the reflection, as well as the poor color digital (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Frank Filz
     (...) My digital camera takes quite nice pictures with flash, of course it took even better pictures when I added a slave flash. That picture actually looked more to me like it was taken using room lights only (incandescent lights are very yellow). (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
    
         Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Mike Poindexter
     Ah, incandescent light. I use incandescent, fluorescent and halogen. Yeah, I get it real bright. Either way, that picture is the result of poor lighting. I actually bought a surf shack because I thought it had an orange plate. It looked orange in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —James Powell
     (...) are they from? (...) before... (...) Its just the lighting conditions...a good example of why to never beleve the colour of a colour picture :) James P (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Richard Earley
    VERY poor color/lighting. Most pool tables use green felt.... -Rich (...) are they from? (...) before... (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
   
        Re: Yellow 9v Tracks? !?!?!!! —Robert Farver
   (...) While green is the typical color, blue is widely used in home tables and appears to be the color of this particular table. Red is also used, often in tournaments. Rob - Rob Farver - mailto:rfarver@rcn.com (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
 

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