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Vanilla Train Sound Japanese-style Replacement

This mod replaces the vanilla train sound set with a audio based on Japanese rail vehicles. This includes diesel and EMU/DMUs, passenger coaches and freight cars. Steam locomotives will have additional crack sounds. This applies uniformly to all mods that use vanilla sound sets.

This mod overwrite the following vanilla sound sets. Therefore, it applies to all mods that use these vanilla sound sets. Some of the audio from the previous sound mod has returned.

* cabcar_modern
* train_diesel
* train_electric_modern
* train_electric_old
* train_steam_modern
* train_steam_old
* waggon_freight_modern
* waggon_freight_old
* waggon_modern
* waggon_old

As an example, "train_diesel" is based on the sound of JNR DD51 locomotive (DML61Z engine) and "train_electric_modern" is based on the sound of JNR 115 series EMU (MT54 traction motor). Note that these sounds are therefore inaccurate for modern electric trains, which appeared mainly after the 1990s.

Updated in December 2023 to expand the custom sound set to include VVVF sounds and steam locomotive whistles; VVVF sounds include Toshiba GTOs (from JR West) and Mitsubishi IGBTs (from JR East, JR Freight and others).

Special examples include the Keikyu-style Siemens GTO on the ICE and the bell sound (based on the No. 8630 steam locomotive) on the USA steam locomotives.

A mod was released in December 2023 that replaces the vanilla audio files. It is safe to use with this soundset replacement mod.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3105921870