[3] This was due to the area's geography; simply building a spur off of the main line would have resulted in too steep a climb to the steel mill.

The steel mill has since been demolished to make way for the national headquarters of American Honda Motor Company, but the once double-tracked Torrance line was reballasted and rerailed with used welded rail in 2003 and is still in use for local runs by the Union Pacific Railroad.

[4] Gone too are the Pacific Electric's Torrance shops at the western branch of the split, now the site of an industrial park still serviced by the aforementioned local line.

Designed by Irving Gill and built in 1913 as part of the original layout of the city as determined by Jared Sidney Torrance and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the bridge became the city's second entry in the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1989 after Torrance High School.

Though trackage, turnouts and remnants of a switch remain on the bridge, it is no longer in use, and the right-of-way at either end has been redeveloped.