After two years, very little progress had been made and the railroad was purchased by the Pidcock Family who had founded a private logging railroad in the early 1890s that ran north from Pidcock, Georgia.
[1] The Pidcocks combined their assets into the Georgia Northern Railway.
The coterie of roads became known as the Pidcock Kingdom shortlines in Sowega.
The Southern Railway took over the Georgia Northern in 1966, fully merging it with the Albany and Northern Railway and the GAS&C (apparently included in the GN purchase) in 1972, but maintaining the GN name for the subsidiary.
[1] It was eventually merged into the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway on December 31, 1993.