An Employee-Owned Company | © 2015 Kleinfelder. All rights reserved. On Saturday, July 8, 2000, San Diego Metropolitan Transit District’s trolley service on the Orange Line was briefly interrupted to facilitate the construction of a new railroad bridge west of the Euclid Avenue Station. possible impact to Rail seR vice With typical bridge structures, precast girders span parallel to the tracks. As such, the tracks must be removed for extended periods of time in order to build the abutments to support these girders. This results in economic loss to the railroad and inconvenience to commuters and local businesses. Where multiple tracks run alongside each other, the bridge may be built in parallel stages. Although this may prevent total railroad closure at the site, it lengthens t

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