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.