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.