sucking transformer        
                                    
         
                                          
 a  type of  transformer  (an  electrical 
   component) found mainly along railway  
  lines. they're usually mounted halfway  
 between  the  rails  and  the   overhead 
                powerlines.               
                                          
 as  far  as  transformers go, these  are 
 very  big. instead, not  as  many  are 
      needed. among all rail-adjacent     
  artifacts/symbols, they belong to the   
               rarer kind.                
                                          
         
                                          
 the   railpeople  are  in  general  very 
    secretive about their symbols and     
 machines,  so   also   with   the   this 
 transformer.  what  we  know is  what we 
               can observe.               
                                          
 a sucking  transformer is surrounded  by 
 two   signs,  both  around  twenty  four 
 meters to each side  of  it.  tranins do 
 not stop between these signs during  any 
 circumstances   -  if  the   choice   is 
 between halting within,  or running into 
 another train just outside,  they prefer 
                colliding.                
                                          
 water avoids  them.  in  light rain, the 
 ground  closest  to a transformer  stays 
 dry.  a  common  sight  is  a  creek  or 
   stream making a half-circle detour.    
  generally, sucking transformers are not 
 placed near to  larger bodies of  water. 
                                          
         
                                          
 their  function for the rail environment 
 is  poorly understood. they seem to pull 
    in stray fields and electricities.    
    superstition exist that they also     
 affect spirits,  gijinkas, and even  the 
        souls of living creatures.