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.