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[quote user="Modelcar"] [quote user="garr"] Using this analogy, unless the national psyche has changed, why make a railroad bridge more attractive to trespassers? In today's hyper legal atmosphere where lawyers try to find gray areas, even in very simple law such as trespassing, why give them more fuel for their arguments by making a catwalk on a railroad bridge? Trespassing is simple to understand, if it is not your land and you were not offered an invitation to stand on it, stay off. Add in a sign stating No Trespassing and it should be clear to anyone. [/quote] First question above:  To have the potential to save lives. Second question:  To be there for plan "B"....For those who will not listen, catwalk or not....A space to jump to, or use in the first place to prevent tragedy with an approaching train. Third question:  You say yourself, "add in a sign stating no tresspassing and it should be clear to anyone".....That is what I said in the first post....If a catwalk is in plece:  "No tresspassing.  Railroad employees ony.  All others will be prosecuted".  Or whatever legal language would be required on the signage. I certainly would not be suggesting a catwalk, or even an offset space every so many ft. to escape to make it easy for tresspassers.....but just a space to get to for the safety of a legit. person {RR employee}, or even a tresspasser {in an emergency....to save a life...! If tresspassers can't be stopped, doesn't it make some kind of sense to prevent someone from being killed.....I realize RR's probably wouldn't care to go this route, but just for this discussion, I think it would be worth having, to minimize potential tragedies. An off the wall thought:  Perhaps a metal gate {locked}, at each end of the "walkway", of the bridge / trestle.  And only RR employees would have keys for it....Now....If a tresspasser is found inside a "locked" space...do they still "win a case against the RR if somehow they still are injured....? [/quote] Quentin, I think you make a good case with all your points.  I'll bet FEC officials are having a lot of second thoughts along the same lines right now, especially considering the fact that they have a ten-foot-wide second track deck sitting there unused alongside of the active track. As a side note, I predict that this story is on the verge of exploding with news about the trestle hazard and the responsibility of FEC in the matter.
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