The railroad ran into financial troubles and was purchased by the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway in April 1904.

[5] After the Seaboard System became CSX Transportation, the line between Sessoms and Alma was abandoned in 1986.

[6] The railroad's former headquarters are today the Ritz Theatre in the Brunswick Old Town Historic District.

[citation needed] A small segment of the line in Brunswick south of Southern Junction is still in service and is part of CSX's Brunswick Subdivision (which primarily uses the former Brunswick and Western Railroad north and west of Southern Junction).

[7] Much of the railroad's former right of way parallels State Route 32 and much of it is now a power line corridor.