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.