In addition, a 43-mile connection from Howells, Georgia (located in Northwest Atlanta) was constructed to meet the former E&W at Rockmart.
[6] Currently, the Hardwick and Roper tunnels are being used by the Alabama and Tennessee River Railway, a subsidiary railroad of OmniTRAX.
After the A&BAL opened in late 1904, the 22-mile Rockmart-Cartersville link and the Coal City-Pell City tracks became branches off the main line.
The Silver Comet, The Cherry Blossoms, and The Capitol were Seaboard passenger trains that ran the line daily from Atlanta to Birmingham.
In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation.
The original SAL Birmingham Subdivision was eventually abandoned in 1988 by CSX from Cedartown to Wellington and from Rockmart to Smyrna, Georgia (near Atlanta).