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.,~/^£§@##    £#~                           £#~     ##@§£^/~,.
..,~/^£§@#    £~#    sucking transformer    £~#     #@§£^/~,..
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..,~/^£§@#     ~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£    #@§£^/~,..
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..,~/^£§@# a  type  of  transformer (an  electrical #@§£^/~,..
.,~/^£§@##  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      #@§£^/~,..
.,~/^£§@##   artifacts/symbols, they belong to the  ##@§£^/~,.
..,~/^£§@#                rarer kind.               #@§£^/~,..
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..,~/^£§@#     ~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£    #@§£^/~,..
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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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..,~/^£§@#    £~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#£~#     #@§£^/~,..
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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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