The depot and loading platforms were where Rockland Bleach & Dye Works (formerly Bamberg Textile Mill) now has its factory on Calhoun Street (circa 2003).
A spur track also ran from the Southern Railway tracks to connect with the B. E. & W.[1] For about a year and a half after its construction, the line was leased to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) as part of their branch from Green Pond to Ehrhardt.
After the ACL lease, it operated as the B. E. & W. It hauled as many as 15,000 bales of cotton in a season, and as many as 100 cars of watermelons in one day.
Cotton, fertilizer, forest products and truck crops comprised the majority of the freight.
Due to severe financial difficulties, on November 16, 1939, it entered receivership and ceased being a public carrier.