The North Carolina Railway Museum, located in Bonsal, North Carolina, features a collection of antique train cars, artifacts and historic train memorabilia, and a G-scale model railroad layout and club.

On select Saturdays and Sundays, anybody who wishes to (must be over age 18 and have a valid drivers license) may come and drive one of their diesel locomotives.

In 1925 a spur was built at Durham, North Carolina to serve the new plant of the American Tobacco Company in that city.

The line eventually became (briefly) part of the Southern Railway, and a 6-mile section was sold to the East Carolina Chapter, NRHS in 1983.

To the south, the railroad is part of the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant and its surrounding land.