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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Date: 
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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)  

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