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.