[1][2] The line was reborn as the Athabasca Northern Railway in 2000 when it was sold to Cando Contracting.

[3][4] By 2007, the track had deteriorated due to increased traffic, and the line was set to be abandoned.

[5] It was re-acquired by Canadian National in December 2007, however,[6] and as of 2011, rehabilitation was underway.

However, as it currently stands in 2023, everything south of Athabasca has been torn up with only a roadbed.

There is a small section that spurs off of the Westlock subdivision that was once the Athabasca subdivision, but it only goes so far and is now a storage spur for CN.