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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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.......,~*     ~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£~@£    *~,.......
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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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