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.