That wasn't track noise. That was impact . Two seconds later, a cow—a real, simulated cow—stumbled from a snowdrift, invisible from the cab until the last moment. Build 11779437 had introduced random wildlife encounters. No one told him.
“Sorry, cow,” he muttered.
He could have braked. But a real driver on that real train? At that speed, on frozen rails? You hold. You sound the horn. You accept the impact. JR EAST Train Simulator Build 11779437