Portion of damaged railroad bridge replaced in downtown Melbourne; traffic detoured View Comments Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today. Major repairs continued Thursday on the damaged railroad bridge spanning Crane Creek in downtown Melbourne, the day after a cement mixer crashed into the low-elevation span. About 11 a.m. Thursday, a large crane hoisted a horizontal replacement segment of trestle aloft from a flatbed trailer, then placed it into position atop the aging Florida East Coast Railway bridge over Melbourne Avenue. The rusting trestle bridge dates to the 1920s. As repairs continue, workers have braced the bridge by stacking steel beams from the Melbourne Avenue pavement up to the bottom of the structure. Trains continue to traverse the bridge.