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...=††††@#  component) found mainly along railway   #@††††=...
.:=††@£££#  lines. they're usually mounted halfway  #£££@††=:.
.:=††@£### between   the  rails  and  the  overhead ###£@††=:.
......=†@#               powerlines.                #@†=......
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.:=††@£### as  far  as  transformers go,  these are ###£@††=:.
....:=†£££ =very  big=. instead,  not as  many  are £££†=:....
.:=††@####      needed. among all rail-adjacent     ####@††=:.
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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 ###£@††=:.
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..:::==†@#    in stray fields and electricities.    #@†==:::..
......=†£#     superstition exist that they also    #£†=......
.:=††@#### affect  spirits, gijinkas, and even  the ####@††=:.
.:=†@£####        souls of living creatures.        ####£@†=:.
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