According to its current website, the railroad spans 179 track miles and operates sixteen locomotives.
In 2006, CLNA began to serve a former NS branch between Whitney and Badin where Alcoa previously operated a large aluminum plant.
On March 25, 2007, CLNA entered into a lease agreement with NS for the Plymouth-Raleigh route, 147 miles of the former mainline of the original Norfolk Southern.
[2] In 2010, CLNA began providing contract switching services in Kinston, North Carolina.
The CLNA also purchased a line between Rocky Mount and Spring Hope previously known as the Nash County Railroad, and began operating a former NS branch between Blacksburg, South Carolina and Kings Creek, South Carolina.