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.