About $15,000 were raised for the construction of the line by township bonds and local citizens.
The road switcher ran took about 40 minutes to run from Moncure to Pittsboro.
The merged company was named the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL).
The Seaboard Coast Line continued to operate the Pittsboro Subdivision until it was abandoned in the 1980s.
[3] An overpass that carried the line over US 1 in Moncure still stands abandoned just east of the Moncure-Pittsboro Road interchange (Exit 79).