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.