,-~††%¤#@# #@#¤%††~-,
,-~††%¤#@# #@#¤%††~-,
,-~††%¤#@@ @@#¤%††~-,
,,,,,--†%¤ ¤%†--,,,,,
,,,,~††¤#@ @#¤††~,,,,
,,,,,~†%¤@ @%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~@%~ @¤%†~,,,,,
,-~††%¤#@# %@~ %@~ #@#¤%††~-,
,,,,-~†¤¤@ %~@ 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. #@#¤%††~-,
,,,,~~~†¤¤ ¤¤†~~~,,,,
,-~~~††¤## ##¤††~~~-,
,-~††%%¤¤@ @¤¤%%††~-,
,-~††%¤#@# #@#¤%††~-,
,-~††%¤#@# #@#¤%††~-,