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[quote user="Bucyrus"]  Some thoughts:Attractive nuisance implies something that draws trespassers.  It does not forgive trespass, but stands as an extenuating circumstance that tends to offset the admonition to refrain from trespass.  I do not know about today, but in the past, the walkway was on one side of the track, and about three feet wide.  It was made of hardwood planking bolted to the steel bridge structure.  It was also accompanied by a very sturdy guardrail.  The walkway was configured in a way that it would be easy to clear a passing train.  This quite spectacular bridge in the relatively undeveloped country invites trespass.  There is a history of the Soo aggressively enforcing a no-trespass policy on the bridge.   [/quote]The term "attractive nuisance" has some local applicability.  Last summer it seemed that drunks were fallin' down abandoned grain elevators in Minneapolis like lemmings over a cliff, and there was a lot of blame heaped-on the owners of the properties by the media and relations of the "victims", not the BOOZED-UP MORONS that fell.  Now, an abandoned grain elevator seems to have lost its usefulness and should've been torn-down, and obviously the CN bridge is vital, but rest assured CN will get a lot of undeserved blame for this latest incident.Also, for additional info, according to my handy CN Wisconsin Division Timetable #2, the speed restriction on that bridge is 25 MPH.
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