Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Burns

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• concluding that walkways are a part of track structure and thus immune from additional state regulation
• “[A] walkway really is that clear area between parallel rails which is not occupied by the cars which overhang the track themselves, and is really the area in which one could safely walk without getting hit by a railroad car or an appurtenance thereto.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).