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#@§¤††«^,, ¤«@ SUCKING TRANSFORMER ¤«@ ,,^«††¤§@#
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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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#@§¤††«^,, 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 ,,^«††¤§@#
@§¤††«^,,, 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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