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.