All Southern Railway Pullman service to Charleston rode over that historic, if bucolic, route from Branchville to the port city.

[4] The Greensboro to Raleigh part of this branch is continued today in Amtrak's North Carolina–based Piedmont service.

In pre-World War II years the train had additional sections that were northern destinations, aside from the default site of Cincinnati.

[12] The Southern Railway discontinued the Carolina Special on December 5, 1968, which had by then dwindled to a coach-only remnant.

Most of the line between Charleston and Aiken, South Carolina, has been lifted as there was little freight traffic generated by the historic but redundant route to justify its continued operation.