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-~........ Component) Found Mainly Along Railway ........~-
/-~....... Lines. They'Re Usually Mounted Halfway .......~-/
=/-~...... Between The Rails And The Overhead ......~-/=
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#@¶§§=/-~. Needed. Among All Rail-Adjacent .~-/=§§¶@#
@¶§§=/-~.. Artifacts/Symbols, They Belong To The ..~-/=§§¶@
¶§§=/-~... Rarer Kind. ...~-/=§§¶
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/-~....... 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. .....~-/=§
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¶§§=/-~... 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. ......~-/=
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-~........ 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. ...~-/=§§¶
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¶§§=/-~... 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. ........~-
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